Ok, so a fully-geared 130 footer has "recorded" only a few knots less than the speeds an 8 footer has AVERAGED over 500m.

While obviously it's silly to get excited when comparing a round-the-world boat with a board, surely it is also bizarre to get all het up when a 60 footer is racing an 8 footer.

Altered's info is interesting....I'd love to see the F16 and A in a full series against FW boards and foiler Moths, I think the FW boards may be eating their claims that they are the fastest things around a course.

(Actually Altered DID race and beat the world's fastest Moth foiler, but the Moth foiler decided that since the conditions weren't perfect for him, he wasn't going to count that regatta!)