First, if I did come across to harsh then I appologize to you Robi.

Secondly, I want to explain to everybody that I seem to have developped an oversensitivity to screams of "boats being outdated". That explains my reaction.

If you all knew how difficult it is to make a boat like the F16 1 % faster around the course and how easy it is too loose that same 1 % on one single bad tack then you would understand my frustration. And remember 1 % is only 27 seconds in a 45 min race !

We are talking very small incrediments here. There is simply no way that this change can make a boat of last year outdated. That would require an improvement of at least 5 % and we are nowhere near that level.

Wouter