No Robi, they will not be outdated.

You are not reading my post right. There is no clear winner in this. I expressed that very clearly in my first phrase. I even gave a trick to get a comparable performance out of the current boards. See the end of my posting. It is just less work with the newer ones.

Compare it switching your sails from a high grade dacron cloth to pentex cloth. Both cloths react differently to different conditions but over a broad spectrum of conditions there isn't must difference between them. The increased stiffness of Pentex is prefered by racers now and so every customer wants Pentex as well. As a builder you have to move with these psychological perceptions.

I can switch over to the new design daggerboards for probably 200 bucks, the amount needed to insert a new daggerboard case in my hull, but I'm personally not considering it at this time. There is not enough in it. I'm happy to get them with my next boat, and that one is still a few years away.

Hell I'm sailing a design that predates yours by 15 years and I still feel fully competitive. Not all changes make previous designs outdated overnight.

Wouter