I'm not convinced! Until a few years ago, if we take Oulton Week as an example, there would be plenty of old boats out racing. There still are the old boats, generally rebuilt and really not much 'old' about them. Have a look at Topsail (brokers), plenty of the old girls for sale. The class is well and truly alive but I can't help feeling that it is leaving its heritage behind. The ex hire boats that were once the backbone of the class are still out there but literally being left behind now and I think that that is regrettable. The more humble boats of the past are rare competitors now, a pity. Very much a development class now, it always has been in some areas. The build and design of seagoing boats has gone way beyond just being radical to being absolutely revolutionary. Carbon aloft is now very apparent on the Broads & we do now see the offshore quest for speed as already permeating RCC thinking, the question now has to be as to how far that will go. Hydrofoil wing keels are surely entirely possible. We have RCCs that plane, Storm for example, so why not encourage that? There are RCCs with centreboards, Luna for example, so why not a lifting, adjustable wing keel? Personally I think the RCC people need to look very carefully as to where they are going before someone jumps the gun. As Vaughan has rightly said, rules are subject to interpretation. The Thirty Knot River Cruiser might be going past you sooner than you think! We already have it in dinghies. Foiling a Norfolk Punt, now there's a thought!