Always the same, unbelievable how quickly rumours are created :

"The battle of the 10 different manufactors was clearly dominated by the Hobie Tiger taking the four of the first five overall placings."


NO THEY DIDN'T !

In the Top 5 there are 2 Carpricorns and in the top 3 there is one Capricorn; so it will be quite impossible to get 4 tigers in there! Both Sach/Sach and Kenbeek/Brouwer sailed capricorn F18's. And it was the 2 professional and fully sponsored Tornado crews that dominated the World championships, NOT the boat. Or do we really believe that they would have ended up way down the list when sailing a different make of boat ? And does anybody really believe that they were sailing stock Tigers ? Because I dare wager that both crews did alot of modifying and tricked their boats out with custom stuff that you can't even order from Hobie cat making their boats almost as different from other tigers as from the other makes.

Wouter