I'm glad this thread is going and that folks are thinking about working as owners to get to the right solution, whatever that is. The N20 is a great boat and it needs sails that match the boat's capabilities.

I was disappointed in the kite breakdowns and felt they were undeserved. I've sailed on a lot of boats, and the way we treated our kite was no different than hard racing on any boat. The new "Ronald McDonald" kite (whose coloring I grew to like in the videos) that Tad and I sailed was so much more unstable than our old one. The sheet loads were much higher. We didn't realize how good the old one was until switching back to it from sailing with the new one for a few days and suffering two failures. The new kite was good at a lake, but not on Tybee.

I sailed Trey's new blue kite a bit after the final finish on Saturday and was impressed by it - it seemed to be somewhere in the middle between our old one and new one.

That kind of variance is not good for a high end performance boat.