Again, these are all just first impressions. The class seems to be very competitive and fun!

My point about the tiller was for when the wind is light. Fat guy on the back of any boat is slow.

As for the B mark at Madcatter, that's not Irene's fault (well, maybe for the first race). She wanted our input for how to set up the courses. Garbage in / garbage out. All we needed to do was tell her to move the B mark and she would have.

To really get rid of the DDW leg, why not just use all triangles? Or, have a course of two triangles then the sausage? The distances don't have to be long.

I should have stated, simple is good. Adding a chute would be fun, but not if it means over-complicating things, or adding cost and complexity that would result in less boats racing.

BTW, thanks for the boat Rick!

Mike