That is fabulous, athletic, fast, beautiful stuff.
I enjoy skiffs but they are so over engineered and complicated in comparison.
As long as the Olympics omit cats, they are out of date and second best.
It is very sad to think the T would be gone as it represents the fastest beach type sailing of the last 40 years and it is still a classic thing of rare beauty.
I was watching a little video of the big tri the other day and the same thing raised it's head. Why would you bother trying to drag all of that bulb through the water when you just don't have to?

I am left with a strong line of thought which is "thank God my neighbour wanted to get rid of his PT all those years ago".