We argue and know from on the water experience that such a 5 kg difference is all but negligiable.
Besides you can have minimum weight F16 if you want to and it will still be cheaper then a competitive F18; for example upgrading to a carbon mast is enough. Everybody was offered the possibility of a min weight boat but alot of us have chosen to go with an aluminium mast anyway as our sailing skills aren't good enough to fret over a few kg of boat weight difference. In my case I wasn't worried to much 14.8 kg either ! <img src="http://www.catsailor.com/forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />
That is the argument we're having here.
Wouter
So if 5kg difference is all but negligible to performance why not raise the min weight by 5kg so that you now have te min weight set to the average of the current fleet thereby ensuring the racing is just a little bit more even and the boats are possibly just a little bit cheaper.
