J/30 Class Association Forums J/30 Forum One Design Class Rules Comment Here - Draft Potential Rule Changes for 2009

Finally looking carefully at these in advance of upcoming meetings and taking them one at a time with comments.

6.4 Safety Gear and Equipment:
Proposed items are exactly the same as the original, except reorganized to Coast Guard/Class/Optional. I wouldn't think most of the optional items (first aid kit, soft wood plugs, flashlights, buckets, heaving line) should be optional, though I could live without the radar reflector. Also with a couple boats in North America and Caribbean a generic Coast Guard is probably a better term than USCG.