Culled and edited .... From the Curent Racing rules of sailing.
Greg
H1.2 SPECIFICATIONS
(a) National letters and sail numbers shall be in capital letters and Arabic
numerals, clearly legible and of the same colour. Commercially available
typefaces giving the same or better legibility than Helvetica are acceptable.
(b) The sizes of characters and minimum space between adjoining characters on
the same and opposite sides of the sail shall be related to the boat's overall
length as follows:
Overall
length Minimum
height Minimum space
between letters
and numerals or
edge of sail
Under 3.5 m 230 mm 45 mm
3.5 m-8.5 m 300 mm 60 mm
8.5 m-11 m 375 mm 75 mm
Over 11 m 450 mm 90 mm
H1.3 POSITIONING
Class insignia, national letters and sail numbers shall be positioned as
follows:
(a) Except as provided in (d) and (e) below, class insignia, national letters
and sail numbers shall when possible be wholly above an arc whose centre is the
head point and whose radius is 60% of the leech length. They shall be placed at
different heights on the two sides of the sail, those on the starboard side
being uppermost.
(b) The class insignia shall be placed above the national letters. If the class
insignia is of such a design that two of them coincide when placed back to back
on both sides of the sail, they may be so placed.
(c) National letters shall be placed above the sail number.
(d) The national letters and sail number shall be displayed on the front side
of a spinnaker but may be placed on both sides. They shall be displayed wholly
below an arc whose centre is the head point and whose radius is 40% of the foot
median and, when possible, wholly above an arc whose radius is 60% of the foot
median.
(e) The national letters and sail number shall be displayed on both sides of a
headsail whose clew can extend behind the mast 30% or more of the mainsail foot
length. They shall be displayed wholly below an arc whose centre is the head
point and whose radius is half the luff length and, if possible, wholly above
an arc whose radius is 75% of the luff length.
H2 Other Boats
Other boats shall comply with the rules of their national authority or class
association in regard to the allotment, carrying and size of insignia, letters
and numbers. Such rules shall, when practicable, conform to the above
requirements.
H3 Chartered or Loaned Boats
When so stated in the notice of race or sailing instructions, a boat chartered
or loaned for an event may carry national letters or a sail number in
contravention of her class rules.
H4 Warnings and Penalties
When a protest committee finds that a boat has broken a rule of this appendix
it shall either warn her and give her time to comply or penalize her.
----- Original Message -----
From: Aikisu@xxxxxxx
To: swiftsolo@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Thursday, September 15, 2005 1:17 PM
Subject: letter number placement on mainsail?
Does it matter which side is up Port or Starboard
USA 028
Ken
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