It was pretty obvious yestereday but I didn't want to call you out. But since you've acknowledged it... let's be honest. It appears that you want to change the way the Class BOG voting is done because you think the Class might vote to change the rule on mainsail material. One could conclude that you want to change the way the voting is done so that the votes are skewed toward the OD sailors and that would hopefully lead to voitng down a mainsail material change. OK - I get it.

I won't comment on the mainsail but I'll restate my point yesterday. There are about 460 J/30's registered and even of the 61 paid Associations, most do much more PHRF racing then OD. Do a poll if you don't beleive but one can figure that out from just reading the comments from the BOG members about activity. By example, one of the New England districts can't do level racing at an OD event because too many of the boats are modified to race PHRF - I'd have that same problem on Lake Erie
In my opinion, if you want to grow OD, make the OD relevent to the PHRF racers and give them a reason to join - Don't exclued/INCLUDE!

Regarding your comment "that if the current mainsail proposal passes those in Annapolis would not confirm"; I'm sorry but i don't follow the logic. If the rule gets changed, you would not be obligated to buy string sails. Dacron would be legal. You and your fleet could continue to sail with Dacron. Wasn't it someone from your fleet that said something about "one bad tack"?