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Race results for the 36 are starting to come by the looks of it.

True enough, but as you say, the makeup of the foil (heavier, and stiffer), the increased difficulty to adjust forestay tension and the...

Quite a bit... The foil is quite different, has to be a lot stiffer in roller furling than tuff luff, you need a top swivel and a...

On what basis do you think that civil liability and criminal liability would use different rules? Yes, I am absolutely SURE that any...

And I'm 90% sure that's also what was quoted in the link of mine in the other thread that is now broken.

It still lays down which rules apply when you go yacht racing. I found this which lays it out in detail. It's from a post on SA...

Nothing to discuss. There is case law that states RRS apply between racing vessels. For example. Clarke v Earl of Dunraven (The...

When your boat is principally a race boat, the cruising you do has to be done with hank on, or rather tuff luff, jibs. In cruising...

We had a Dutchman system on Dad's old Legend 336. Boat was new in 1996. In summary, it worked, but in my opinion gave few advantages...

Pip’s last sail before the start. With wildly grinning guest.