When some time ago the Viper claimed a 1.04 rating "because of weight" I was already thinking Greg was playing on 2 horses.
Now the worst thing that could happen is that Greg sells his Viper as an F104 in France, because then Nacra, Hobie and AHPC have a F104 and it will be difficult to encourage Cirrus or Mattia or anyone to built an F16 compliant model.
Again resulting in difficult sales in France and difficult class building.
Gill
Yep.
Thing is will anyone buy a 135kg F16 ? (I assume unless it's very cheap that is a no.); I believe the target weight for the Viper is 125kg.
Will people outside France adopt F104 ? I currently cannot see it.
1, In the UK the Spitfire is the only other boat that is "around 104" on current SCHRS (1.035) and I doubt the Spitfires would be interested in diluting their UK series with other boats. What are the F104 class rules? Or is it just that you have to rate 1.04
0 ? (note the extra "0" - SCHRS is now 3 decimal places).
2, There is a F16 fleet in the UK and we quite happily co-exist with the Spitfires. I don't see a "heavy F16 selling to F16 sailors or a F104 selling to Spitfire sailors.
3, Will the other parts of the EU buy into F104 ? Not sure; I'd hope there are enough F16's in the NL to reach critical mass. Other places are more of a 50/50.
4, Will people with F16's want to sail a heavier boat (not me, I bought a light boat and I want it to stay that way).
