Contrasting Sail Numbers...

Originally posted by Ruscoe My bro and pal in their Phantoms what do you think of these numbers!

At the end of the day your opinion doesn't matter, my opinion doesn't matter, no other poster's opinions matter. The opinion that does matter is that of the protest committee. If people are happy to take that risk of having different coloured sail numbers they'll have their chance in front of the committee.

You can have numbers that look different, but the PRO has got to be able to read them.

At Salcombe Week, I believe there was some difficulty reading the numbers of some boats at the busy starts.
If the PRO can't read your number at the start, he may not be able to read it at the finish. Seems a shame to get a DNF just for the sake of trendiness, so possibly better to stick to something that has been demonstrated to be readable.

Originally posted by Ruscoe   If you did get protested out for having something that is legable but different in my mind you have a moral victory over the pedantic morons anyway.

If we are being pedantic then we should note that as long as your sails are just as legible as all the others then you can't be DSQ just because they are different in colour or font or something like that (class rules permitting).

Edited by JimC - 20 Jul 12 at 2:04pm

I would argue that in the sunlight the flourcent numbers are as easy to read as black numbers on the ODL series of black sail cloth.  As i understand it no one has complained about my pals sail numbers as yet, the sails were measured with numbers in place.  If you did get protested out for having something that is legable but different in my mind you have a moral victory over the pedantic morons anyway.