Unrelated, but worth mentioning: Macca sits at position 52 out of 63 in the Texel open. A poor showing really.

I guess the weight of his F18 was not enough to prevent failure of his Nacra hardware (I thought he said he was no longer sailing for Nacra?), as he has a 18th finish, a dns and the rest dnc. Maybe a lighter better designed boat would have resisted the elements better.

For the uninitiated, what I'm doing here is called trolling, aka posting a deliberately provocative message to a newsgroup or message board with the intention of causing maximum disruption and argument. Watch this space.