[Public-List] Mast Heads for the Alberg

[J Bergquist]

Michael-

It is not up to you to decide what is allowed by the class rules and
what is not. The class rules are written and documented. The decision
of whether or not to allow equipment modifications is left to the
rules committee by the class rules. The class rules are published in
the association handbook and it is clearly stated that spars and
standing rigging and spars are not to be modified from original
equipment provided on specified dates in the rules EXCEPT in cases
where the rules committee has made an exception. Please read the rules
if you need a refresher.

I am not saying that you are wrong. What I AM saying is that it is not
up to you to decide. Please do not presume to know the rules any
better than the rest of us. Andrew raised a legitimate question that
it is possible such a change of masthead would be not allowed by the
rules. It's up to the rules committee to decide whether or not such a
change would be allowed. But no one among us (neither you nor I) is
allowed by the class rules to make such a judgment on his or her own.

Clearly there are already some boats which are or recently have been
actively racing which use internal halyards and/or non-original mast
head fittings. I would propose that allowing this change would be
advantageous to racing in our class for these reasons:

1. It is not an extreme expense. In my opinion, it does not materially
increase the cost of the boat.

2. The advantage incurred, if any, is small (reduced windage from
internal halyards).

3. As the boats age, it is not reasonable for us to expect people to
continue to use the 1965 hardware forever. Surely some will be able to
get more use out of that equipment, but probably not everybody can do
so. People need to be able to replace worn out parts with equivalent
new equipment.

Because I am obviously an interested party in this discussion, and I
am a member of the rules committee, I have recused myself from a vote
on this issue and asked our commodore (Mike Meinhold) to appoint a
suitable replacement.

Kind regards,

J Bergquist

On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 7:12 PM, Michael <dickdurk at atlanticbb.net> wrote:
> running internal halyards will take the boat out of class, although I
> suppose that only matters if 1. it races 2. it beats someone.
>
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