Could it also be the "nut on the tiller" doing the work.
Of course, that is why all this "US$40K class killer" nonsense is such BS.
In the overall scheme of things, material choice is an almost negligliable factor. It comes well behind other factors like sailor skill, the boxrule limits, sailcut, luck, etc.
That is the core argument of these posts.
I would have loved to the faces of those crews laying down 35k and for that "all-carbon miracle" and then finding themselves trailing behind a much smaller plain glass/alu cat costing less then half their purchase cost. Can't say that they weren't warned, we've seen this happen several times before with the M20's and F18's.
Wouter
