The configuration of the Alpha Omega F14 Wouter, is all up sailing weight, less crew, 76Kgs, the area of the mainsail, including half the area of the mast, is 13sqm, the "spinnaker” that we are using at this stage is actually cut from a Genoa pattern, but using spinnaker cloth so that we can set and retrieve it from the spinnaker chute and it is only 9sqm. This gives us a very versatile, very forgiving, spinnaker that we can set, with advantage over a wide range of sailing points, The tack of the spinnaker is set only a few cm in front of the bows and it is sheeted from the rear beam. Later we will have cut two or three different types and sized spinnakers as we have a lot of latitude in area that we can go to within the “box rule”. Downwind the videos that we have taken to document the performance show that in all winds, it has a speed more than 2 times that of a 4.9 Taipan sloop without spinnaker. Every time we compete with it in a mixed fleet of A class, Taipans, F18’s, 5.8 NACRA’s, Hobies, etc, we creep up a little more on them, don’t know where it will eventually settle out but we obviously still have a lot more performance to “wring” out of it.