According to Texel I should never have to buy another boat again. Just sail the one I am on well! Tornado has done very little to improve itself apparently since the 70's.The Taipan 5.7 is a dog.The Hobie Fox is faster than everyone thinks.My mystere6.0 should be able to tangle with anything out there and swallow F18 and F16 alive .Excellent can't wait to get started.
I would start by buying a pair of reading glasses first and actually READ for which boats the Texel ratings were developped because :
Tornado has done very little to improve itself apparently since the 70's.
Its rating has only gone down from 100 to 94 and from 1970 to 1998 the classic tornado was the benchmark of the system with an ASSIGNED rating of 100.
Actually NO TAIPAN 5.7 in its standard form was ever measured by Texel officials. Only two WEIRD modified T5.7's were : One without a jib and one with a standard crew of 3 persons instead of only 2 person. It says so in its rating details. The owners tried to create a rating killer that way, didn't work well.
The Hobie Fox is faster than everyone thinks.
Typical US sailor based misunderstanding. The US sailors compare the FOX to the US version of the Inter-20 and then call the FOX slow and profess amazement that Texel rates the FOX of comparable performance to the European (and thus slower) version of the I-20.
My mystere6.0 should be able to tangle with anything out there and swallow F18 and F16 alive
Mystere is of of those companies that has build 10 different version of any model the ever launched with often the European models differing from the US model significantly. So is you M6.0 the same as the European M6.0 that was measured my Texel ? In mysteres cases it is mostly not.
Wouter
