seems to me that whenever the skiffs want to go faster, they put a bigger stick up there and add more cloth, while the cats have, for the most part, gotten faster by refining characteristics of a basic premise. For example, wave piercing bows, rotating wing masts, and the new MMA2 shows what techniques in hull designs can improve an already go-fast platform.

I'm pretty biased of course. They've probably done the same thing. Just seems to me that they're always talking about how they put a 45' mast on an 18' boat and were totally shocked when they hit 25 knots and 3 broken ribs.