Hallo Victor,

Alles goed ?


>>Is there anyone who Looks withes cat fit in the F16 box????

The Blast does fit the F16 rules as the class rules only specifies maximum or minimum limits so everything on the right side of the limit is allowed. The Nacra blast was on the right side of every limit the last time I checked and is therefor F16 compliant. Of course you are right by saying that compliance itself is no garantee that you're about as fast as the fully optimized F16's.


>>A Nacra 5.0 has a Texel rating of 117 no spi and 113 whiff spi and is 149 kg + the weight of the spi.

Texel gives 147 kg for he nacra 5.0 and John has ordered a custom made and larger F16 main to go on the boat. This main is 1.5 square meters larger than the standard 5.0 main. If you run all the mods throught the Texel rating calculator you will find that this setup has a new rating of 107 under spi which is getting pretty close to the 102 of the fully optimized F16's.


>>I think you will never come close in a race.

John knows he is at a disadvantage when sailing his "Nacra F16", we adviced him honestly about that, but he has no problem with it. Which in turn I think is cool. He wanted to have a F16 like boat on the water very soon and he found that he could do it for very little investment by this route. He is think about building a fully optimized F16 afterwards. I hear he has made a Timber Cobra for himself in the past so he knows what is means to build himself a new baot like a timber Taipan or Blade.

Getting back to 107 to 102 in rating. I've raced P16 against H16 with a similar rating difference like that and found that this difference is equivalent to a pretty small distance between boats. I found that unless I had a feeling that I'm right on a H16 tail that I wouldn't correct out over him on handicap as well. Most of the time that I corrected out over H16's I finished neck to neck with them or finished just ahead. For this reason I think John will have a good platform to start out on I wouldn't say that is the rating difference was more than 10 points but with 5 points he will come close enough.

Besides The mosquito's in Australia are in a similar situation and did upset a few Taipan sailors over there by just sailing well and finish ahead anyway. It is very easy to overweight a performance difference of a few % when on the water this difference is almost neglectable when sailing a better race.

If john sails well than he will get close.

Je vaart een nacra Blast op Katwijk, doe je vaak mee met hun club wedstrijden ? Hoe verhoud de blast zich tot de andere boten ?

Fair winds,

Wouter