That claim by the A class association is now very suspect when the Yachting Victoria yardsticks list both the A class and the F16 (for F16 both 2 up AND SINGLEHANDED) at 71. These yardsticks are based on real performance results IN A VARIETY of ACTUAL races, and as such is a very good representation of their true performance accreditation against each other, ON THE WATER. Even more so as in those A class results there have featured some of, if not the best A class sailers in the world, whereas the F16 sailers, although good sailers, have not had the benefit of the same extensive close F 16 "class" competition over long hard years of top tuning/racing that the A's have. A conservative analogy would be that, all things being equal, the single-handed F16 performances will only improve over time whereas the A class will in all probability remain relatively the same. Even so, as it stands as of this moment, the F16 single handed IS currently rated exactly the same as the A class, ergo, the A class cats are NOT the fastest single handed cats in the world today. Their statement is false.