I don't believe Texel is the way to go to equalize boats. It may give you some idea of speed potential but it doesn't equalize the boats. Texel has no windrange's. Boats then that do well in light air suffer in heavy and vice-verse.
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<br>On Comparing F18/F20 speed. On a very windy Midwinters with Lambert/Patsy on the F18 and Nigel/Alex on the F20 it looked like the F18 was very fast but came in a little behind the F20. The F18 beat some slower I20's but the top dogs were seperated by a few minutes.
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<br>I believe we have to settle on an 8.5 beam or this just won't work at all.
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<br>Mike Hill
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