Vorpal Blade

See, cruising such a pedigree race boat like the mighty Timberwolf is easy, dry and comfortable provided there are enough boats around you to carry extra beer, wine, steak, chips, water, roof, galley, bunk, toilet, anchor etc etc. And a huge time was had by all!

Very well done, the Public Image looking awesome in its third incarnation, do they know they even have a soundtrack that lots of people heard, over and over and over and over on a continuous loop tape heres a pic from one of the very first races we ever completed, it used to break heaps of stuff and earned the nickname public damage

Im sure theres lots more, maybe a shorter list would be boats that havent been in the club

A few corrections there Motor boy if you talk to Bruce he will maintain HD has only been flipped 1 1/2 times because the second time it didnt go all the way over! Im pretty sure Te Kooti has been upside down twice and the mystery GBE that managed the very difficult task of two capsizes in one day was Sublime (now Pussycat). Also add to that list Ocean Pacific and Freedom.

here we go, this will start a shitfight........ As far as I can see the word BALLAST doesn't even appear in the class rules. Having the boat ballasted to a trim of 900kg and then moving the ballast to where you want it is fine, but if its water ballast then I think there could be an issue, particularly if you had the ability to scoop and release while you were sailing and thus the ability to alter your displacement. "oops we just let it go by mistake, an hour ago". If there were no outlets I think it would be fine, you need to take all of your water all of the way around the course.

If the boat is designed and built to the class weight, i.e it is supposed to have a 350kg floaty bit and 550kg of ballast, and it always sailed with the ballast as part of its usual sailing trim, it's probably within the bounds of the rule. This is provided the ballast doesnt swing outside the box, and the beam and length of the overll structure dont exceed the box limits, particularly diagonally. Your box cannot be a parallelogram.