The arms race we are talking about is sail area NOT money.
The M20 platform can be sailed as sloop or uni. Lets compare the results from the different versions of M20 and see if Wouters formula works.
If we look at the times for the upwind leg at last Texel, the M20 without jib was faster than the sloop versions.
Round Texel 2006, the Uni rigged version of M20 came 1, 2. They smoked the Eagle cat on the upwind!
M20 participatet at Garda last weekend and was sailing upwind for 20 Nm in winds around 25 knots and they walked away from a top Tornado.
Do you see a trend Wouter??
LESS (sail area) IS MORE!!
/hakan
