Ohh I see.

Hakan, can you produce the elapsed leg times for this stretch in full on the forum. Not all data is dependable. There are typo's in these marker times.

I'll give you an example.

Pols/Veenstra (M20 GTI) were timed at VC-bouy at 1:13:55 and at Oudeschild at 1:47:34. This suggests that they sailed the same stretch that took nearly everybody else 52 minutes in no more then 33:39

This can't be right.

I would like to see whether Marstrom time is an outlier as well (and therefor suspect) or reflected by the other line honour boats (and therefor confirmed).

It is interesting to see Marstrom being 10 % faster the M20 sailed by Flier/Deventer as well (with Flier being ahead of Mastrom for 80% of the race). This M20 and the F18 by Bundock/Ashby stayed close together where Marstrom just motored along 10 % faster then both of them and coming from the back while overtaking boats. You just don't see speed differences like that between crews of this level. I shall be honest, I find it suspect.

I know that I'm a very sceptical keyboard sailor but this almost suggests to me like a wind was filling in from the back of the fleet or something.

In short I would like more convincing.

Wouter