Hi Steve,

hope this is on track. Was talking to Simon McKeon (Yellow Pages, Maquarie Inovations, A class and sometimes Taipan4.9 Sloop skipper) at Taipan titles last weekend about speeds with this thread in mind.

He said handheld GPS are unreliable for reading speeds, backed up by some of the comments in this thread. His experience is that off the beach cats top out at 23kts. Also backed up by comments in this thread and my experience. I did ask him if it would be possible to include some cats when next record attempts are on, he wasn't to interested Macquarie Inovations syndicate have other priorities, very serious about getting record back of Sailboards, currently rebuilding craft for next speed season. Around Sept. Nov. in Vic. OZ.

Haven't given up though might try and arrange something, get Glen Ashby A class/Hobie Tiger/Tornado, Greg Goodall Capricorn/Taipan, Rowan Veal Moth Foiler (has recently been written about as beating A class around course?) and my F16 Altered there for a shoot out, have to be worth some promotion ?

Regards Gary.