Class Politics Intensity Sails - Actual usage poll

What approach does your local fleet take to the Intensity sail?

  • No formal position; nobody uses them.

    Votes: 4 23.5%

  • No formal position; some sailors use them.

    Votes: 5 29.4%

  • We are actively considering it right now

    Votes: 1 5.9%

  • We have considered it and decided to stick with the strict class rules and ban them

    Votes: 3 17.6%

  • We have considered it and decided to allow them.

    Votes: 4 23.5%
  • Total voters
    17
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Chris123

New Member
Please don't rehash the arguments here (there's a separate thread for that).

What I want to know is whether or not your local fleet has established an official position on the Intensity sail.
 
We've decided yes, and here's why. We have about 8 old Lasers owned by the instructional program at our club. They all have old sails made by Fisher. If we ban Intensity sails, we'd have to ban the use of these old sails, and we'd lose half of our fleet, since the boats are constantly loaned out to club members who sail with us. We are using Intensity sails since we have a precedent for using practice sails in our club races.
 
In the Cedar Point (Westport, CT) Frostbite Program, we consider it to be real racing, not practice, so we try to enforce the Class Rules. People buy new boats, and new sails, to stay competitive in our program. When this question was discussed at an informal meeting last month, there was a clear concensus to NOT allow non-Class-legal sails.

Eric
 
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