My comment about Playstation not being ready was in reference to the additional length they added to the bows. If I remember correctly, they had very little time to put the boat through it's paces with the additional hull prior to the race.

Like you, I wouldn't give the same kind of credit to a 'staged' record attempt for Texel as I would a record breaking run that occured, as you said it, "in a real race with 500+ boats and with a real start in whatever sailing conditions the weather brings". We need to remember also that we're both reacting off an admittedly "roughly translated" piece of documentation. I would find it difficult to believe if the Texel organizing authority considered these record attempts the same as a race day record. However, I simply think it's still a noteable and interesting attempt at speed sailing on a course that's familiar to a lot of cat sailors. I think we agree when you boil it down to that.