I keep hearing over and over, how the F18 can't handle 350+ lbs of crew weight. Well, last week, Dave and I weighed in at full pork mode - 360 lbs (that's pretty sad considering we used to have to work to make the 330lb min). We raced over 4 days in everything from 5-10 knots to over 20 knots of wind. At no point did we suffer from lack of boat speed. Lot's of time we lined up against Enrique and his crew at 310 lbs, and he had nothing on us upwind or downwind. I would say the boatspeed among the top 10 boats was almost identical, and the crew weights were as much as 50 lbs apart.

That's just my observations from the F18 NA's.