If you had have turned up to Texel you would have had a grand total of 4 F16s. That doesn't constitute a fleet in my book so you have to race on handicap/yardstick/some arbitrary figure. None of the F16s present ran with the F18s like they are suposed to. My guess is that they are too heavy to perform at 101. And if you worked out each individual boats real life texel rating it would show that.
Secondly Chris's spitfire certainly is not the One Design spitfire you speak of. If you actually turned up to regattas you would know this. It is an optimised 104 just like i said. You should maybe stop gripping yourself so hard.
The other F17 was not the sloop version and therefore was not a 104.
As for the French 104 nationals that still remains to be seen. The boat in question certainly was a 104 so it sounds like a case of 2 kids being bullied out of a well deserved win.
Its pointless to disscuss anything with you Wouter because when faced with the sometimes inconvinient truth you just make [censored] up to suit yourself.
