Hi Tim,

thanks for posting those results, odd that they don't tally with "official" list when they gave you the elapsed times.

But what is not in dispute, is the position of the top Taipan4.9 sloop when factored into mixed fleet. As you can see he was no doubt a better sailor than the Mossie sailors and the VYC results show this.

Now I can hear some of you saying, but the Mossie still won. But if you take into account the fact that there was only one non spinnaker reach in each race, most of it was windward and returns, the course clearly suited spinnaker cats, wish he had used spinnaker because his performance would no doubt have been awesome.

So the Taipan4.9 with no spinnaker did well to get this close to Mossies and I have no doubt would have beaten them on VYC if he had used Spin.

If you look at elapsed times Taipan 4.9 sloop beat Altered over the line in all but one race so with Spin. I am sure would have beaten Mossies. I know it involves a few presumptions, but in my opinion VYC Yardstick of the Mossie is not far off the mark.

Regards Gary.