hey just a guy who wants to buy a f16 and am confused, sorry if you thought it was crap. there has been a lot of disscussions about the speed rating and wanted some info. and you guys all seem to have alot of the answers, am i asking in the wrong place? or is this just angry friday?
angry friday actually.
the speed rating, according to the USSailing DPN number, which is used for most everything open class in the US is not accurate and maybe not as accurate as other systems. as others have said, it is apples to oranges and if you are a hard core racer then maybe a one design class would be best or only race within your class. The F16 rating may indeed get faster or slower... but likely faster. If they keep beating N20s on elapsed time then maybe the number should be closer to that.
Just seems odd to me that our number changed mid season, and there is plenty talk about the N17 having a gift rating but that I do not think has ever changed.
What is nice about the F16 crowd is that we pride ourselves on elapsed time, not corrected time when I see race reports. No one on here has bragged about correcting out above this or that.
and there is an understandable amount of reservation about posters with no history
