First I want to congratulate W.F. for winning the Alter cup title 2003 together with Matt. That Alter Cup event is a really good format and a one-of-a-kind in the world.

I was sitting on the Jim Boyer news for a few days now, I was waiting for the dates to come in. There is some other news too, but I will post that all together when I have everything complete.

With the possibility of tuning, exchanging experiences (sailing hotter with spi etc), and racing with the other fast classes would make Delaware State Championships an attractive event for the our US event calender indeed.

Chuck you offered to assemble a schedule ? Maybe add this one ?

Jennifer and Michael, it is good to see you enjoyed yourselfs while "comparing" yourself against boats of a different class. Thanks will go out to the Tiger sailors for letting other comparable boats in into their startfleet. That is mighty welcoming from them. And of course Thanks to the race organisers for realizing the speed potential of these 16 footers. We still have that peachy PN number, of course !

Michael I guess we'll loose that PN number sometime in the not too distant future. I mean when Nigel sends in the race data of the races Jennifer and you raced !

It is however good to see that at one goal of the class is materializing and that that you can attend a regatta no matter wether you get your own class or not. When there are insuffient numbers you can always race , and race well, against F18's (Tigers) and measure yourself against the best in that class.

It is also good to see that you feel capable of giving the F18's a run around the course. So far this experience is confirmed by multiple sailors and indeed around the Globe. Surely there will (small) difference caused by reacting differently to varying conditions but the magnitude of these are looking increasely small. And maybe the difference are indeed of the same magnitude as those between different designs withing the F18 class.

Fair wind to all,

Wouter