Just offering my opinion, which like yours can't be found at WalMart. If the Class feels it has covered the angles, then "good onya."
Unfortunately, you can't really cover all the angles. I see 3or 4 camps in this debate: Those that want to drag out the process to make it affordable. Those that want as fast a platform as possible now.(me) And then you get the distance/buoys question on top. I don't think everyone can/could or will be completely happy.As Keith or Jake said earlier, if beating the F18 is the goal a stepped roll out of SMOD sails won't work because your using a fixed solution to try to beat a ongoing development. All of this is semantics anyway, You'll never get a consensus to open the sails up unless the factory does something drastically bad to force the issue, which would be counterproductive for them. So basically a stepped rollout is what we get. If that doesn't get me where I want to be I'll get my sails where I want ,put in curved foils,make wider carbon beams and get a Hall mast and race Portsmouth. Easy Peasy lemon squeezy.
"I said, now, I said ,pay attention boy!"
The cure for anything is salt water - sweat, tears, or the sea Isak Dinesen If a man is to be obsessed by something.... I suppose a boat is as good as anything... perhaps a bit better than most. E. B. White
