Believe it or not, Rick, that was 1990! Time flies, doesn't it? I remember that sail was way ahead of its time for several reasons. I made it at Greiner Sails of lightweight mylar kevlar and it had NO STITCHING except for the corners where I sewed on web loops in lieu of using grommets so that the sail would be as light as possible. Carol and I raced our Hobie 18 with that sail on its first use against you and Mary on your Hobie 18 using a SYMETRICAL spinnaker. Can you believe how fast things changed?! That sail was so fast it was hard to believe. I can only take credit for bringing the idea home from Australia (while we were racing the Tasar Worlds) where I saw a Hobie 18 on the beach with a masthead genny and running backstays. I did improve the sail significantly and figure out how to run it without adding the backstays. Dave Sullivan and I used it on our first running of the Key Largo Steeplechase (also 1990) and we were holding off Prindle 19s with it on the 18 Magnum. We did not have the big poles yet and were running it on a bow to bow wire like the Hobie 21 originally had. The sail was masthead but with a much shorter foot than commonly used now.

It has been fun developing sails with/against you for a couple decades now. BTW, I have an idea to make the Hobie Wave MUCH faster in a very simple way and would enjoy discussing it with you (or maybe just showing it to you this summer)! It depends on how motivated I get... (How in the world do you do it?!) If you combined my idea with your Hooter, you would always win any race you entered on the Wave that you finished. Interested?