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The class (the word is applied to Sixes) prospered. 1000 boats<br />
were built before WWII. It became an Olympic class and it was<br />
"the" development class. New ideas were first tried out on<br />
Sixes.<br />
An anomaly of the Rule is that the boats are twice as long as<br />
their numbers. A Six is about 12 m. long.<br />
This goes back to a humourous story at the London conference<br />
that created the Rule in 1907. In fact the conference was fixed.<br />
The northern countries and the U.K. had already decided the<br />
form of the equation.<br />
The monolingual French representative, Louis Dyèvre, wasn't in<br />
on the "fix".<br />
He huffed and puffed in French at the blackboard advocating a<br />
variant of the American Universal Rule which has a parameter<br />
in the denominator.
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