The thought process was, we can teach professional, big-boat, match racing sailors how to sail cats, much easier than we can teach cat sailors to match race.
EDIT: I agree about the nationality rules. Jerome (Rome) Kirby is from Newport (and is either Ken Read's godson, or should be) and is the only American currently on the boat.
Don't forget, the rules had loopholes in the past, and you saw a lot of shady passport-changing leading up to each iteration.
Mike
Yeah...not so much. The speeds are so great on cats that one bad move (or 2 extra tacks) are going to give the other guy hundreds of yards. Like Randy Smyth said in Rick's book, "Speed is all that matters, go as fast as you can, as long as you can." and that was long before anyone ever went 40knots on a cat! Speed is much more important now, because 'going slow' costs you so much now, more when the other guy is going 40!
These guys still seem to think tacking is going to win them a race.
That has been our observation all along (except maybe for Jeff, LOL)...
Anyone else wish the skippers were Ashby and Bundock?
