>>We have over 10 F18s sailing locally now (including me) hence the desire to be 'as fast as them' when I move to a single hander. I don't really mind if I'm always the last boat as long as I can mix it at some stage of the race. A lot of my sailing will be done alone during the week - hence the boat change...

You'll be ahead from time to time. The thing we would locally here is that we can predict when the A-cat is very likely to will win and when the F18 will win. The two boat react differently to the conditions and their individual peaks are found when the other have a dip.

The sailing will be alot of fun but the racing will be a bit on-off.

Wouter