It's a off-topic for this thread, but if someone would like to see the (beautifully-designed) WETA's ability to handle heavy wind, here's a nice video of it. You can certainly trip them over their bows and the righting procedure doesn't sound so speedy:
Each time I see the Weta video's I notice the same things. Not enough volume in the ama's or length of the beams; these things pop underwater putting the breaks on so often ! And the fact that you can see this boat go over sideways and pitchpole more often then a Hobie 14 ! Usually it does this after submerging the lee ama at speed, leading the impression that the whole boat could become significantly more controllable when the ama's are up to the job of floating partly above the waterline when the sails are powered up.
I take everybody else word on it that they are a bundle of fun to sail, but when watching the video's I can take away the impression that the design could have been better and that a catamaran of the same length would have also performed better. That flattish bow section of the centre hull really doesn't allow proper dive recovery as a more rounded and narrow cat hull does, right ?
Maybe it is just me.
Wouter
