Now that a number of folks have had the opportunity to sail the Blade I'm really curious about the "feel" of the boat in chop and waves, especially upwind, in comparison to the T4.9. I've been told the T4.9 is both smooth and quiet upwind in chop (ie, a "cutter like my current H17 and the I17 since the bows really slice through the water and don't have much or any bouncing tendency). One would think that with it's wider bow bottoms and lower volume distribution the Blade may get a little bouncy and/or noisy upwind in these conditions (like some A cat designs aka "planers"). Or, is the Blade somewhere in between the cutters and planers?

Thanks for the input,

Jerry