Jay,
This ain't F1, I think you're over estimating the designers. I'd bet max windspeed for a design has never been considered ,much less recorded on a data sheet. Plus it would change with crew weights and sailcuts, and wave conditions.
"I said, now, I said ,pay attention boy!"
The cure for anything is salt water - sweat, tears, or the sea
Isak Dinesen
If a man is to be obsessed by something.... I suppose a boat is as good as anything... perhaps a bit better than most.
E. B. White
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