If Bob continued to sail like he was a month or so ago - he would have won on just about any handicap number. He works really hard at being fast and it has paid off. Good on him.

The elapsed times will be interesting, but my guess (I wasn't there) is that he was close to winning on elapsed times and won handily on handicap - which is the way the system works in the US. This should validate that the F17 is a fast boat.

We had a F17 place 2nd in the spin boat fleet at BSC's Cat Caper a weekend ago. It was well sailed and won a few races outright (over I20s and F16s) on elapsed time.