This is a pretty funny story.., David and Goliath sort of thing.

At the Spring Fever, I was sailing my pseudo F-14 (Wave with a Hooter). There was no wind.., just glassy water. Then a tiny bit of wind came from the south. So, the RC quickly set the marks to that wind. But, I noticed by the time they had set the marks the wind had already shifted to the southwest.
I never strayed more than 10 boat lengths from the RC Boat and could not believe they started the sequence and the smaller boats (Mystere 4.3, H14 Turbo, and F14) were the first group.
When the 5 minute signal went off I immediately headed for the stern of the RC Boat, knowing the wind had already gone right and the RC end was heavily favored.
In that 5-minute period I just made it past the start line, jibed, unfurled my Hooter, sheeted in and was 8 seconds late for the start, but the only one there.
The course was once around and a close reach to the weather mark, broad reach to the leeward mark and close reach to the finish.
I beat all the boats in my group. But the funniest thing is the wind completely died after my finish. After an hour there were still fleets of boats trying to get to the A Mark.

The funny overall result of this terrible race is that this lowly little Wave (F14) beat every boat at the regatta on a boat-for-boat basis.., including I-20, H20, F18s, etc. <img src="http://www.catsailor.com/forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

Of course the reason was that each class starting after the first group had less and less wind, and the F18s and I20s had less than anyone.

Still a pretty crazy story, eh?