All this warmth and humility is making me feel gooey <img src="http://www.catsailor.com/forums/images/graemlins/ooo.gif" alt="" />.

After finding out that the "New" main had been passed, I wondered how long it would be before the subject of the Taipan Australia class standard jib being to big would come up. <img src="http://www.catsailor.com/forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif" alt="" /> I had put off bringing it up myself.

In OZ I don't see it being a problem until the numbers of F16 build up, after all the difference in performance is mainly 2 sail reaching I think <img src="http://www.catsailor.com/forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" />.

Actualy it will be interesting to see if Yachting Vic. change the yardstick for the Taipan, again this would be unlikely as the yardstick people don't seem to have been keeping up with things in recent years. But it is possible that a Taipan sloop with spinnaker adjustment added, could be rated faster than F16 if they moved the Sloop yardstick down any further <img src="http://www.catsailor.com/forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif" alt="" />.