dyzzypyxxy
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Has anybody asked Tracy if the ILCA Exec ever saw and read an actual written report from the lawyer that Jeff paid 60,000 pounds of members' money for? That's supposedly where they got the information that the builders didn't really need an agreement with Bruce Kirby Inc. because it was "mostly historical". The lawyer also supposedly advised them of the lapse of some design patents having nothing to do with the Kirby sailboat formerly known as the Laser. Competent corporate lawyers don't make mistakes like that and if there was a written statement, it would be clear on those points. Where did that info really come from?
You can't tell me they spent that much money on a phone call or two that the ILCA Exec could have then misinterpreted so wildly. The lawyers did a lot of research, and wrote up a nice, long report clearly defining the situation in order to rack up a bill that large. Maybe the Exec should be asking Jeff for the invoice from the lawyers? If there's no detailed, written report they should be asking for their money back considering how much trouble they're in now. IF there is, and they either didn't read it or didn't understand it, well . . . I can't imagine that happening.
This whole legal mess happened because Jeff wrote up the rule change based on bogus information that misled the members, and the Exec approved sending that rule change to a vote. They need to find out where that information came from and why it got so far before anyone found out it was wrong. Then they need to fire whoever the perp is, and get on their horses to put things right.
It would be a bitter pill to swallow for all the former Laser builders to find out (maybe) they really didn't have to pay BK hundreds of thousands of dollars in royalties over the last 40 years, because his builder agreements were "mostly historical". Somebody made that up out of fluff and blarney.
You can't tell me they spent that much money on a phone call or two that the ILCA Exec could have then misinterpreted so wildly. The lawyers did a lot of research, and wrote up a nice, long report clearly defining the situation in order to rack up a bill that large. Maybe the Exec should be asking Jeff for the invoice from the lawyers? If there's no detailed, written report they should be asking for their money back considering how much trouble they're in now. IF there is, and they either didn't read it or didn't understand it, well . . . I can't imagine that happening.
This whole legal mess happened because Jeff wrote up the rule change based on bogus information that misled the members, and the Exec approved sending that rule change to a vote. They need to find out where that information came from and why it got so far before anyone found out it was wrong. Then they need to fire whoever the perp is, and get on their horses to put things right.
It would be a bitter pill to swallow for all the former Laser builders to find out (maybe) they really didn't have to pay BK hundreds of thousands of dollars in royalties over the last 40 years, because his builder agreements were "mostly historical". Somebody made that up out of fluff and blarney.