Re: [bolger] One Design Racer -Intn'l Offshore Suite 14ft Proposal on Web
Roger Dewhurst wrote:
If a contestant crosses the start before the gun,
they are required to return to the start and do two
barrell rolls before proceeding..
On re-thinking, Nils hull looks not unlike
a scaled down version of that obviously
unneccesary bit that fell off Goss's cat the other day......
Cheers
Jeff
>Chris reckoned============>>.
> At 14:08 15/04/00 +1100, you wrote:
> >
> >On a more serious note, the SF surely passes the class's 90 degree tilt,
> >40lb on the masthead, recovery test, but it sure looks like it would be
> >stable upside down! Especially if the bulb keel happened to be retracted
> >at the time, or broke off in the roll.
> Five meters is better and six is more like common sense. I would have one
> rule only beside the length. The boat must be turned upside down (180
> degree roll), fully loaded, sails up and ready to go, before the race
> starts. If it does not turn the right way up it does not start!
>Now THAT would make an interesting race starting technique ...I'm afraid that clashes with a new ruling.
>perhaps it could be done once to meet class rules and then again if the
>class examiners think substantial changes have been made since the last
>check?
If a contestant crosses the start before the gun,
they are required to return to the start and do two
barrell rolls before proceeding..
On re-thinking, Nils hull looks not unlike
a scaled down version of that obviously
unneccesary bit that fell off Goss's cat the other day......
Cheers
Jeff