APPENDIX 1

RULE WEIGHT CONDITIONS

BUILDERS WEIGHT - Items included in the Builders Weight as set out in 15.1 shall include the completed hull, deck, keel, rudder, interior, and deck gear in a complete and finished condition with the following included:

- windows and hatches
- berths and cushions
- tiller and extension
- electrical - panel, lights, one battery
- plumbing - sinks, 1 bilge pump, head, tanks, Y valve overboard discharge
- stove
- deck hardware - blocks, tracks, cars, cleats, jammers, organizers, pulpits, stanchions, pushpit, lifelines, winches and handles, compasses, padeyes, fittings for forestay, shrouds and backstays, mast collar

The boat in this condition shall not weigh less than 1912kg or more than 1972kg (see 15.1).

Note: If electronics are on the boat at the time of weighing, an allowance of 16kg shall be deducted when calculating the corrector weights.

Weight correctors will be added if necessary to bring the total weight to 1948kg.

RE-WEIGHING AFTER THE BOAT HAS LEFT THE FACTORY. - A boat may be voluntarily re-weighed once each year from the date of purchase, under the guidelines of Rule 15.1, and as set out in Appendices 1 and 2 after it has left the factory. The boat shall be in Builders Weight condition. Apart from bunk cushions and winch handles, all loose and removable items including liquids shall be removed, as shall mast, standing and running rigging, boom and spinnaker pole. Weighing shall be carried out by a Class Measurer and shall be by single point lift with a load cell of appropriate weight range recently calibrated to the satisfaction of the Class Measurer. The addition or re-fixing of corrector weights shall be similarly supervised.

RIG WEIGHT - The rig weighed in accordance with 19.14 shall not weigh less than 48.5kg.

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