Dear Wouter

I read your whole essay, about your new boat with interest!
congratulations to your courage, building your own boat! those pictures on your F16HP look good!

Must be hard to wait until next spring. but better be patient with sailing your boat, than destroing it in bad wetter! You will find the right conditions to do the first sail!

One question I have for you.
I' m thinking of increasing the width of my ventilo F18HT.
As I sail mostly with a crewweight between 120kg - 130kg. It is not a problem to control my boat in heavy winds, I 'm just thinking, that we will be more competitive and faster when the wind is up.

Since I found out that the Texel-Rating would not change, when I increase the width of the boat, it dosn't goes off my mind.

There are two options witch I discussed with favre (the builder of the ventilo's)
One are with carbonwings, the other idea is to exchange the beams and all depending spare parts.
My preference is to increase the beamswith from 2.5m to 2.75
instead of adding a wing of 50 cm.
What do you think, what would be better, how much righting moment will I gain!?