The problem I face is that , frankly , at 145lbs. i'm not fast to windward in the F16 in anything but moderate to light conditions( i think the new sail has changed this) and beam reaching. i'm just going backwards compared to boats with more meat on the wire.The F16 is a very light , very powerful boat for a vertical hyphen like myself. The stock , sloop cut F16 sail I had was a problem because I could never get it shaped advantageously.
The Glasers are nice people - when I described the sail I thought would be fast they didn't say , " yes , this'd be a fast sail for Pete Melvin or Glen Ashby or Pease, but you'd be slow because you're not good enough yet..." Instead, Jay told me a story about ____ _____ who cut these increadibly fast sails for the ____ ____ Worlds - which he won. Consequent to this victory, he sold a gizzillion of these sails to the fleet.Punchline: nobody else could make the sails go , they were just too far to the right of the bell shaped curve for most of the fleet...
This sail is easier for me, because I can find a "groove" approximating a "set it and forget it", shape rather than the puppeteer on crank tweeking I was doing w/ my last sail. I'd still like to weigh about 175 - 185lbs. though...More practice is another target as well...
