What every boat makes you happy !



Some perfer the 16's and others the 18's and that is good.



BTW, there will never be a Tiger HT I can assure you that. Hobei would never bring a second 18 footer on the market only to compete with to old Tiger. That is really not in their interest.



And the H16 did very wel indeed at Texel, I didn't mean to suggest otherwise.



I made a mistake though they finished 44 minutes behind the leader and not 24 minutes. Some 28 % later than the leader on overall elapsed time. My point was that one does get more bang for the buck in newer designs and the bang is 28 % more speed. Still, I think that the rating system has proven to work here and I think it is very important that anyone has a good change of scoring high no matter what boat is sailed. I don't want everybody on F18's and Tornado either. A little diversity is good.



With respect to the F18 and F18HTs I'm not worried. There are still plenty of sailors outthere with requirements that these boats simply can't satisfy. I have a pretty good idea of of how these boats can and can not be used and also how some builders think about them. F16 class is secure



By the way if you want to read more on the 16 versus 18 topic please go to the following two posts :



http://www.catsailor.com/forums/sho...iew=expanded&sb=5&o=14#Post11286



http://www.catsailor.com/forums/sho...iew=expanded&sb=5&o=14#Post11245



Sometimes bigger is necessarily (much) better.



Wouter