Andi, in that second picture above, what is that skiff on it's side, with the big racks, is that a Laser 5000? How do they score that regatta? By separate fleets or all together by handicap time? It looks like fun!

Which lake does Ernesto Barterelli race his big carbon cat on?

Dermot, I'm lucky to have good people like yourself and Wouter, who speak the same language (the cat racing language!) who are willing to show me around. Thanks to all of you.

You know you all are always welcome in Florida. Come on over, I'm sure Matt will let you try his Blades and I'll buy the beer.

I think that big skiff is one of these.

http://www.f1sail.com/

ps check out the video ps

No, that is the 18-Footer from Sammy Smits (Alias 'Bademeister' )

When multis and monos race together we use the Bodensee Yardstick and when the multis race by them self, we use the texel rating system.
I don't how the Yardstick-Commitee calculates the correction factor for the Bodensee Yardstick.

Bertarelli races at 'Lac Leman' lake of geneva in the french part of switzerland.

If you are using Windows Mediaplayer it should work. Just download the latest Codec. One other thing you can try doing is downloading it to your hard drive and playing it from there where you don't have to worry about streaming video. Right click on the link and select "Save target as" and save it to your computer. I hope that works... I know you don't have to hear it, but it is a good video.

-Rob V.