I enjoy watching evolution. That daggerboard is so thin and skinny - it's a complete deviation from the beginnings of F18 development. Early F18s (Nacras) used the high profile (skinny) I20 board profile but rumor had it that it made the boat really hard to handle on the start line when the water speed was low. F18 evolved fatter and fatter boards. Now this with the really high aspect ratio foil (it appears to be even more so than the early Nacra). Is it a step forward, or a step back? Perhaps it's something that you have to be REALLY good at boat handling to use on the start line - but I can see how it might have an upwind advantage.

The bow seems to be pretty thin. The reverse bow does sing a little like the Capricorn. It's hard to tell due to the color - but it doesn't seem to have as much down-low hull volume that the Capricorn has. The sterns look fat and wide and has the chine - Infusion-esque. It perhaps has more rocker than both the Capricorn and the Infusion - sort of like the older Nacra F18. It's a good looking boat.

Not that I'm in the market for an F18 at the moment - but I am disappointed that it appears that the Tiger trampoline attachment method will be carrying over to this boat. The Tiger tramps always felt so mushy because they aren't laced to any hard points on the sides. That, or the Tigers I've sailed on weren't tightened properly.