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The class rules. VB cord isn't supplied rigging.

Exactly. Then you're class compliant.

There's nothing in interpretation/ruling 72 that prohibits the backstays being kept tucked away between the mainsail skins. So long as the specified parts (dogbones, ferrule caps, strops and other specified parts) are used and the runners can be adjusted (that does not limit them being adjusted...

What if they're not removed? Perhaps they just run down the back of the mast inside the twin mainsail skins. There is no weight saving, but there's a fair chunk of wind drag gone...

He learned from the best in the last Cup cycle...

Or on the pumps building those guns up?

I saw a bobby run to an armed robbery with his truncheon in the early 1990's. I'm not sure that was brave or stupid...

Hey, hey Englishaman, you cannnanotta park youra tractor inna mya space.

The stern is pretty different. Similar to AM B2

Even translated, Italian is a beautiful language...

They may not have ever been that fast, but they've always looked good...

It's never a good look when the jib tack is behind the mainsheet traveller...

When could be the question. Don't be surprised if it's November...

Spoken like someone who has no idea what things are like in a breezy SW'er and an incoming tide or even worse - a big north easterly breeze and an outgoing tide in Auckland...

Impressive...

It might have a lot to do with Persico Marine being fucked. Yards at Bergamo & Carrara are closed.

I'll be happy to read something from "that notorious Kiwi-journo-who-shall-not-be-named" that isn't quoting someone else's work and spliced together with little more than speculation or rumour.  Journalist is a stretch. Story teller is more appropriate...

I'll back TE before Richard Gladwell any day. I've heard that Persico Marine have been quite heavily hit by COVID-19 and that to finish LR 2 was 'unviable' in that by the time they could get the boat to AKL, there was no time to de-bug and develop the boat.

It's becoming pretty clear that any recreational water activity is being either frowned upon or outright unlawful in Australia...

Not a good look when you have a home game and no home team...