>>>If a Tornado was 12ft wide, it would be the same speed/performance as today's Tornado in light and medium winds. When the winds go higher than 15knots, the wide Tornado would be faster to windward, faster on a close reach, faster on a beam reach and the same speed downwind


Every kid knows that there are two limits to how far he can push his parents. -1- His mother -2- his Father. Often his mother is the more strickt but when his father gets angry it is often the most severe. Now every kid now knows that either one blowing up limits his range of pushing the boundery. Which ever he reaches first will stop his gains. I mean he know that his farther still gave him some slack when for example his mother reaches her liit of patience sooner. So some potential has been lost. Now what is he can shift some burden towards his father in this situation and move the apparent limit up while keeping the limit of his father the same. Now teh kid can make more gains.

Now what is he shifts alot of burden towards his father and go easy on his mother (very wide beams) will he get even further still. NO, because now the patience ofhis farther is more limiting than that of his mother. He still reaches one single limit before the other. Best ratio is when both reaches their limit at the same time than you have maxed out how far you can go given the kids stuff resistance potential of both parents.

Boats are much the same. And I've found this happens indeed. For example the 13,5 ft by 7 ft wide Hobie Dragoon is imposibble to trapeze of as an adult. as soon as you do that the noose goes down and you can't get aft enough to get it back up. It sprays like crazy and goes slow. Slower than than hangin out like on a monohull and keeping his noose up.

Now different course have different ratios that is true but each course has a ration beyond which extra width is waste,

Wouter