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    Posted: 17 Aug 15 at 6:11pm
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Also, we can now just hit the mark, which means we don't have to round it at all, just sail close enough to tap it. Actually, I rather like that idea. Maybe you should HAVE to hit the marks. That would be a game changer, but as these rules will be used by plastic boats (all the wood ones will go back to using 1946 rules) it shouldn't be a problem.

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Originally posted by Rupert

Also, we can now just hit the mark, which means we don't have to round it at all, just sail close enough to tap it. Actually, I rather like that idea. Maybe you should HAVE to hit the marks. That would be a game changer, but as these rules will be used by plastic boats (all the wood ones will go back to using 1946 rules) it shouldn't be a problem.

Of course this is pub talk, sadly minus the beer tonight.

No rule 28, so you don't have to sail the course at all. 
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Removing discards would reduce the 'boats hunting each other down problem'. There would never be a reason to sail a boat down the fleet (assuming boats aren't competing for team prizes within a fleet racing... top club etc.). 

Then in the event of any collision you could disqualify both boats. 

No need for any further rules. 

Or... keep discards... hitting another boat and getting them and yourself disqualified, and by result forcing the other boat to count a high score would become a valid tactic and the reward for being able to sail a consistent series. 


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If there's one thing I'd like to see removed is that ghastly tactic of sailing another competitor down the fleet, never had it happen to me, but the first time I witnessed it funnily enough by an ex RYA dinghy squaddie type turned Windsurfer who then went on to be the RYA Olympic coach, it went down amongst us windsurfers like a ton of bricks and there were howls of derision, at the 1980 Windsurfer OD nationals, in order to secure a third place ffs. Very un sportsmanlike also un British in my then naive view of fair play in life. The Guy waited above the start line then sailed the other youngster down the pan, I've never had any respect for Ainslie either since watching him employ similar tactics, pathetic chicken sh*t way of getting victory in my book, rules or no rules, it totally sucks.

As to the simple rules, I think pretty much folk work out at club level what to observe and what to turn a blind eye to, as to wether we need the same rules as big boat and A/C big lawyer, big money yotters, er no we don't, what we need is a new organisation to administer small boat racing, run by enthusiasts, the way it used to be before the RYA became a corporation of jobsworths.

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