What will the F18 class do now?

http://www.sailing.org/tools/documents/F182012INT170212-[12114].pdf If you read the document carefully you will see that all F18's are now illegal unless you have painted the hulls in the course of maintenance.... So, after many months of fighting over something as stupid as paint V's gelcoat we now have a totally messed up situation where 99% of the fleet is now illegal. If we could apply common sense i'm sure this can be solved, but that has been lacking so far... Stay tuned for more action in the coming weeks.