I'll surely get flamed for this one but can anybody explain to me why the SC20, "the best designed 20 foot cat in the world and 20 year old holder of round texel record", sails of the slowest rating of the whole fleet except for two Hobie 21 sport cruisers ?

And that is AFTER being compensated for having an oversized mainsail, making the base rating 64.4 / 0.98 = 65,7 !!! Even a Hobie 20 is rated faster than that without having a spinnaker (64.9). Even the smaller F18's need to give the SC20 "Big main" over 16 minutes time in a 9 hour distance race. I dare not calculated how much they owe a standard SC20.

At least under Texel, despite its flukes, the sc20 is rated the same as the Tornado and that seems a whole lot more fair.


Ratings participating in Steeplechase in other of being quick :

-1- Marstrom 20 56.5
-2- CFR 20 58.4
-3- Tornado 59.0
-4- Nacra I-20 59.2 (US version)
-5- Formula 18 62.5
-6- Nacra 6.0 NA 62.7
-7- Nacra 6.0 NA 60.2 (with spi)
-8- ARC 21 61.5
-9- Mystere 6.0 63.9
!****!!
-9- SC20 64.1 (including a "big main" correction)
!****!
-10- Hobie 21 64.4 (with spi)
-11- Hobie 21 67.1


Wouter