Hi all,
My blood is boiling right about now, so bear with me...

I just today noticed that they deleted the rating for the FX-1 without spinnaker. According to an E-mail I just got from Darline Hobock, I am supposed to use the spinnaker rating and adjust it using the modification tables*. That makes me a 69.9!!! Just as a comparison, the Nacra 17 (formerly Inter 17) with spinnaker is 66.7 and without is 73.2. The Hobie 17 is 74.0 The FX-1 is fast, but not THAT fast! I just sent her another E-mail in the hopes that this wil be changed back to the way it was, so I am awaiting her reply.

Another interesting thing about the modification table is that if you carry a spinnaker on a boat normally without one, you multiply by .972. However, the vice-versa is not the inverse of .972 (which is 1.029) but 1.01. If it were the 1.029 (as I think it should be - at least for a uni boat), my number would be to 71.2 - exactly what it was last year!!!

I purchased my boat, brand new without a spinnaker. That was (and still is?) a standard class for the boat. Just like the Nacra 17 without spinnaker.
It's not like I bought it one way and am now racing it "modified".

I'm sure Darline will do the right thing (I hope...)

Steve
Hobie FX-1
Sail #211

P.S. Don't reply by saying "time to get a spinnaker man" or something. I think the spinnaker on cats was one more nail in the coffin for cat sailing. I liked it better when sailing was simple....