Perhaps many of you don't remember Wouter lobbying to get the F16 number lower. Guess he thought that would attract more sailors as it led one to believe the boat was super fast. It was not.
Actually, I truly believe the F16's and Taipan to be alot faster then the USPN numbers suggested till the recent change. It is about right now.
We had the funny situation that in Australia, were the Taipans were/are raced actively, the sloop Taipan without a spi was rated faster in relation to the F18's and A's then the F16's (WITH a spi) were in the USA. Obviously something was wrong here and it wasn't the Australia handicap system.
Wouter
