Rick I have to c all BS on this.

We requested to sail with the 18's at Tradewinds to have more boats to sail with. If it was not late and the order already established it would have prefered to race all the spin boats together. (there were many of those F18 guys we asked after the event that commented the same, they wished it was all spin boats together.)

There is a wide range of skill levels in all the classes. I definitely do not want to make this post into yet another rating debate as that is pretty tired now. Robbie walked away from us the last 2 times I raced him 16 to 18. That has nothing to do with a perf rating. We want to race to gether becuase the boats are close enough that one is not going to mess up the other due to the boat (The drivers on the other hand :)- but that does not mean the better driver is on the bigger boat)

Also to jog your memory, we ended up 3rd across the line in all the races we finished. Ben and Lindsey were very close to us as well, so commenting that the f16's were not even close is a bit of an unfair statement.

Matt