It would be interesting to put an A class rig on one of our platforms and then compare. I for one think that as a single hander we are carrying too much sail area ( we tend to have the downhaul on a longway sometimes and thus create a very draggy and inefficient sail ) and that if we reduced it to a high aspect sail similar to the A class with similar masts then we wouldn't be down 10% performance incurred by the extra weight, snuffer windage.

The other thing also was that with John P on the helm he was right in amongst the A's at Mumbles 06, perhaps we need to get ourselves up to speed by 10%. <img src="http://www.catsailor.com/forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif" alt="" />