Thanks Darryl for your ideas. Operating out of here often leaves us in the dark with sailing developments plus there aren't that many people with too much time on their hands here to put into their liesure pursuits. Any comments on how to improve things for us are graciously accepted.

I can see the benefit of having 2 lanes of development. Although we've had a cat fleet here for more than 20 years i.e. Hobie-Nacras-Taipan-F16's now we are still in our infancy. Currently it is good for us to get our platforms 'standardised' but we are openly encouraging any F-16 as it can only make things more interesting. From an organisational point of view, it's very simple. From the sailors point of view, it's a lot more fun. All we need is a LOT more sailors. Then we can delve into more development.

I think our impetus is really to get a few platforms up to 'speed' and then try our luck in Europe.

I guess having some with Goodall sails and some with Ashby's doesn't really constitute diametrically opposed lines but we are hoping that we'll be able to develop a competitive sail here...dreams maybe, but worth a try nonetheless.