You can't score 1,2 one day and then end up in the middle of the fleet the next and call it a ghost! The conditions was ligher when the boat ended up in the middle of the fleet.
The two extrems in the beach cat worlds are probably Hobie 16 and the C-class and they attract different kind of sailors. The A-class have moved from the "C-class" type towards the "Hobie 16" type the last years which means that some sailors has left the class and but more have joined it. If the A-class goes into a new development cycle it will move towards the "c-class" type again, the last time it happened was the wave piercing design. The question is if the class can take this "beating" again without losing to many sailors? Since the class has been stable for many years now it has attracted sailors that like to sail, not to build, and will those sailors stay until it has stabilized again?
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The Moth and A-Cat are the 2 development single-handed classes. Both have increased in numbers over the past years. Moth due to foil development, A-Cat due to being a hi-performance lightweight boat.
Now the Moth allows development in foils and no min weight. Hull development really out of the question in future development, but possibly development in minimising air resistance like the Swiss mecano set recently launched. However the Moth has a mast height restriction which in some ways limits rig development here. Not possible to move to the refinement that is seen in the A-Class rig.
A-Class only has a sail area restriction, which means that this area will always be a potential area of development. We saw that with Ben Hall's wing mast recently. It was amazing downwind in a breeze to see, but the excess weight aloft caused a pitching effect which hampered it in other areas. Also the A has hull development on its side. The worlds in Florida saw 9 to 11 different hull shapes, and there are other designs in Europe that weren't there.
So maybe leave the moth to develop foils and go down that path. If that is your thing.
The A will look at further refining the rig and hull shape.
So each will fill their own niche and will attract those interested in those areas. In some ways no point in competing in the same development area as they are fundamentally different boats (cat v mono).
