420 winged rudder

Yep there are mods and there are mods, an rs400 kite on a bosun is quite a mod!
Anyhow, these are fun events and sure winning has some kudos, but worrying about what somebody is doing to their boat further down the pack is missing the point a bit.
I suspect that if you threw the book at a lot of boats at these events they'd fall over on some technicality.
Who checks the rack settings on the 800s?

The class association can give dispensation in their own events, not other peoples. Otherwise I'm asking the topper class for dispensation to sail a foiling moth off their handicap next year...
The event organisers can give dispensation. The point is, as with just about everything else, you should ask first, then you avoid embarrasement.

Originally posted by robin34024 if the class association had given a dispensation ... legal

Debatable, because the dispensation is very limited. In any case the race office should be notified, because its very easy to imagine them wishing to make a handicap change. A more extreme example was when the Enterprise association issued a dispensation allowing pole kites for handicap events only. It is (or was) thus quite legal to have a pole kite on your Enterprise for the BM, but you sure as **** wouldn't expect or be given the same handicap.

Originally posted by SoggyBadger Originally posted by hollandsd As the testing is part of the class associations changes then I feel that the sails would classify as being class legal at that point. Dan Rubbish.

Excuse me but its only an opinion, if I were racing against them and the class association had provided the sails to be trialled and with the current ethos of the new sails I would have no issues what so ever with them beating me.

Dan

Really.