Well done Tim & Gary, just keep on doing the good stuff !
News from South Africa, we`ve just had our Mosquito Nationals, for moe info see
http://mysite.mweb.co.za/residents/tuffex/index.htmWe have 6 spinnaker boats now, all of which are sailed regularly, albeit at our home base mostly, thought we`re growing the number of travelling sailors, giving more exposure to the class. Good news is that after our nationals another SIX spinnakers were ordered, seems the rest are tired of being lapped ! Tim & Gary, just keep it up & the same is likely to happen in Aus. We`ve adopted the spinnaker as standard, unlike the Taipan class - we had 100% "yes" vote from our class members on this issue.
We`ve sailed against Hobie 16`s & Hobie Tigers fairly often, in some conditions we are equal in speed downwind to the Tigers, although they run away upwind in most conditions, until it gets windy. The Hobie 16 sailors here are frighteningly fast, and I`m embarrassed to say they are as quick as we are in certain conditions, although I think most of our Hobie sailors have been world champ at some time or another, which makes them hard to beat ! On a windward/leeward course we have the edge on them, on a close reach there`s nothing quite like a H16. They are trying out their spinnaker kit with limited success - upside-down Hobies are not that fast !
Cheers
Steve
