My dearest nacracando,

You're right. The boats are really slow. Actually, the boats are a lot slower than an Optimist Pram.

I'm just confused about one thing - the last 18ht I raced beat me in light/moderate air by 1 minute in a 50 mile race. If the f16 is slow, what does that make the f18ht?

Of course, I'm sure this doesn't matter to you, since the sailors were average sailors just like me (also some of the nicest people I've met in a while), not rock stars that spend 5 days a week on the water. Takes all the fun out of it, when someone compares apples to apples, hunh?

Welcome to the real world. I and most of the rest of the f16 class are regular sailors. Sometimes we win, sometimes we lose. Sometimes we decide to go to a race. Sometimes we don't.

AND WE DON'T OWE YOU A GODDAM EXPLANATION FOR WHY WE DO THESE THINGS UNTIL YOU JOIN THE CLASS.

cordially yours,
michael c.
t4.9 #32

p.s.
what's your real gripe? Are you going through some personal crisis? Do you even sail a cat? What class? How did you place at Hartwell? Last time you got on, you asked if I was at the same regatta as you - but wouldn't say how you did. Are you just full of [censored], or where did you place? All you do is bitch about how bad other sailors are. But we don't just want to hear about ourselves - we want to hear about how good you are.