Taking the above excerpts from the rulebooks at face value, IF I WAS A NEW BOATER, building a Dumas Circus kit and was looking at trying to register and race that version of the Winston (or for that matter, the U-50 American Spirit), I would be totally lost due to the fact that I wouldn't have a clue where or when pictures were taken. With the NAMBA rules, it's supposedly cut and dried, the Winston is on the water and appears to be returning to the dock. But is it really? Neither shot shows the boat up and running, giving a large dose of doubt on whether the Winston actually ran or is just a staged publicity picture. NIn the IMPBA rules, how is a new boater supposed to find a verifiable shot where there is a known date and location? Information on the internet can be more than questionable when it comes to the unlimiteds and, as we all know, photographers tend to have their favorite boats and tend to take more shots of said favorites than of the other boats, making documentation on some of the boats that much more difficult.
