Does anybody know the standard number heights for a Merlin mainsail ? I thought it would be prescribed in the rules but cannot find anything and there appear to be a number of options......help!

I've now found it in the rules so 12" ?

Hi RH..

Sail number size, position and spacing are a prescription in the Racing Rules of Sailing (Rule 77), and vary for boats of different lengths. Sizes are detailed in Appendix G section 1.2b.

For a Merlin min letter height is 300mm and min space between characters and the edge of the sail 60mm.

All info available on the ISAF web site www.sailing.org

GGG

All these different sources for one class it would be good if the relavent excerpts (not just references.)were published as an addenda to the rules so much more joined up.

Hey, that's a great idea for an online business...

Go ahead!!!

Go ahead!!!

Nah... I'll just get ripped off by somebody on Dragons Den, what's the point.

Think of it as putting something back into sailing!

Until fairly recently we used to print the rules in the handbook but it was found impossible to avoid errors and so many discepancies arose between them and the RYA version (not by any means all down to MROA!) that the Committee decided to discontinue the practice.  In any case, mistakes or none, the version on the RYA website is the official version.  The rules are being reformatted into the ISAF format and will then contain appropriate references to other relevant documents, such as ERS and RRS.

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