Hi Rolf - how did Santa treat you?

For the F18, minimum crew weight is 115 kg (253 lbs). There is no maximum, though there is a team here in SoCal that is about 410 lbs (186 kg) that led the country in points for 2008. Most teams in the US seem to cluster around 310 lbs (141 kg) to just barely make weight to carry the big sails with nearly maximum correctors, or around 340 lbs (154 kg) to avoid carrying any correctors at all.

I felt I was competitive under the small sailplan at 265 lbs (120 kg) with 5 kg of corrector weight. In 2009, I'll be sailing with a new crew member at about 142 kg.