Wouter,
While on the subject of whats new in beachcat technology, I was suprised you made no mention of the Ventilo Zipo (http://www.ventilo.ch)or Mattia Dynacat and all those photos on your website. These have a totally diferent rocker profile to any other cat I have seen and have flat, assymetric hull bottoms. Have you any news as to how these are performing in races, or are they still too new to have any numbers on the scorecard?
They may be fast in certain conditions and crap in others - I don't know. How about putting the url to the photos up so we can get some comments from other people including Bill Roberts.

Simon Fisher