I don't know why at every opportunity you feel the need to stick the boot in to the Taipan class,
Because at alot of opportunities they had felt the need to do so to me.
Point in case ; see the daggerboard discussion of only days ago.
Why not just call the Taipan mainsail what it really is. An F16 mainsail. Prototyping was done in the F16 class against some great adversity when it wasn't fashionable to explore such a "novel" idea.
I do indeed think it to be funny for a Taipan sailor to "highly recommend" the "new" mainsail design to sailors who have actually already sailed with such a sail for several years now.
Don't you see the irony in that situation. You guys are catching up, not "prototyping". All rebranding aside.
Wouter
