This guy won 13 world championships and 4 olympic gold medals and ofcourse many many many more local championships like Europeans and such. All of which in many different dinghy classes, 7 in total. So many succesful transitions from one design to another.

Then he switches to cats and doesn't win any olympic medals or anything else, he only wins the European champion thing.

Would you call this a succesful transition to cats when you compare it to his previous achievements ?




It certainly makes Smyth better on a catamaran then Paul Elvstrom, meaning I would like to see Randy in the Alter Cup much rather then Paul. Despite the fact that Randy has much less (if any) dinghy world championships then Paul.

THAT my dear friends is my point all along. The number of dinghy championships under your belt says not much at all about how well you can sail cats and is therefor a bad indication whether you should be in the Alter Cup event.

Wouter