Well yes, It would indeed have been better if I had not written that initial paragraph :

"Also we are losing some upwind performance because of the spinnaker package and the spi halyard running up the mast. I saw a good trick on a singlehanded F16 recently. The owner had moved the spi halyard so that it run up along the forestay instead of along side the mast."

Sadly I was too late to delete it when it became clear everybody was falling on it like a pack of starved wolves.

My mistake definately. I just wanted to point out that the F16 can go some way in optimizing the rig just as the A's have done over the last 30 years. Naturally each improvement will be very small but when you add up 30 years of it then the combined total can be quite large. We F16 sailors have only been at it for 6 years now.

My appologies to everyone. I should never have written down this example.




Alright, everything is fine now.

Wouter