I wouldn't say I HATE Portsmouth racing, but I MUCH, MUCH, MUCH prefer SMOD racing my Hobie 16.

Why? Besides the obvious (it's more fun to be in close proximity to lots of other boats that are the same, so you can have more tactical situations, win outright, etc.), when you win on corrected time on a Hobie 16, it's always because your number made it happen. Except those time when you're actually physically ahead of a "faster" boat on the course, then that's just a bad skipper (you really shouldn't have beat that boat). If you're on a "slow" boat, you never get credit from the "fast" boats for actually beating them.

(EDIT: I'm not limiting this to ME beating "faster" boats, that's only rarely happened in the past 10 years. However, much better Hobie 16 sailors than I get the same reaction, regardless of what other championship titles they may have earned over the years in MUCH harder fleets.)

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Mike