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My aim was only to underline that more money not always buys more speed.
The BIMARE X-2, on sale at EUR 14,700, with its a simple E glass construction, aluminium beams, bome etc proved to be at least as fast as the full carbon Eagle 18HT on sale at EUR 19,500.
For pics of the 2007 18HT Europeans have a look at:
http://forum.mysnip.de/read.php?12763,906337



Just last weekend an ancient Prindle 18-2 finished 4th place in a strong field of F18s, N20s, and an M20 (Texel winner).
And at Texel last year a Prindle 15 (probably worth not more than €2K) got 2nd place overall beating all those expensive €40K+ lightweight race monsters.
These where all low wind conditions but cool nonetheless.