-1- Ability to right the boat unaided and with simple means
If it's windy enough to tip it in you can get it back up again. Yes, if you tip it over in a F1 you WILL NOT right it on your own.
So you are in agreement with me.
In addition can a 75 kg person still right the discussed boat unless it is really windy ? If you are doing the wild-thing you may find that you can easily tip a boat in conditions qualifying as less than windy.
Also I hold all boats to the same judging rule, no exceptions, and it is beyond a doubt that the different boats score differently on this criterium.
-5- Ability to race the boat well in modern fleets of fast (spi)boats
I have many people moaning that the Inter 17 is one of the quickest single handers down wind and no slouch in a 2 up fleet either - Big kite, wide to allow you to power it up and long with deep bows to allow you to keep the boat powered up. It does (in EU I17 guise 13.4 sqm mainsail) suffer a little upwind in the light stuff.
I don't know about that. The EU I17 has more singlehanders sailing in front of it then behind it; don't know wether that still is sufficient to earn the qualifier "One of the quickest". I'm sure the newer versions like the 17R and sorts are noticeably faster and I always mentioned that.
-9- Robustness and resistance to abuse
Oh FFS. Elsewhere you have a go at Performance for over building their boats and now you say they cannot take the rough stuff, or sail in the big stuff.
Rubbish. All the performance range (not seen an A2 so cannot comment on that) are very well build and last for ages. My 5 year old boat is still going strong, had a "proper" clean up last year and people were asking if I had a new boat.
Were did I write that the I-17 was "bad" in the way of "Robustness and resistance to abuse". I never wrote a thing like that. That maybe your reading of my post but I never wrote that down, nor intended to. You can't fault me for this.
Wouter
