. . . If we placed Alex and Nigel -Steve and Kenny -Brian and Jamie --and other top teams on 6/0s the results would be much the same .
No offence to 6/0 sailors but the skill levels are different ,-not that much in the boats .
Per example --Dave and I WON THE SPRING FEVER REGATTA LAST YEAR --on the Inter 20 --Matt and also Randy S WERE ON NEW jAV 2S ,--WE ALL arrived at the weather mark together but they sailed better downwind staying in the dying breezes better .--
The hype from then on appearing in magazines etc was the Jav is faster ,--well its not when sailed by equivalent sailors ,--I,m not Randy or Matt ,-two of the best in the world . . .
Carl,
I agree with you in that too often the sailors are left out of the equation. In an earlier post, I noted the spread between the cummulative times of the first and last place finishers in each class. If the boat were the only variable, we would expect a much tighter grouping, but there was an 8 hour, 14 minute spread between sailors on I20's.
But what about the [color:"red"]
average cummulative time[/color] for sailors in each class? If you take all those who finished, it calculates out as follows:
N6.0 - 54 hours, 38 minutes
I20 - 54 hours, 52 minutes
F18HT - 57 hours, 37 minutes
