As to the controversy around Vanke Longcheer’s sails. “The rules that are written for this event are quite open ended, and it does allow for quite an uneven playing field. What's happened has happened, we can't change that.
“But for the next event I think we should look at it, the event is getting so big, it's attracting more and more talented sailors who are pushing the limits more. They need to rewrite the rules to accommodate this. It's attracting a lot more attention globally. You've got Olympic gold medallists, TP52 sailors coming to compete here. To keep level of the Beneteau 40.7 class high, they need to build some tighter rules around it.”
