Some people posted that as long as you race comparable boats
the portsmouth yardstick is fair. How can a stock hobie 18 have a rating of 71.4 and a Hobie 18sx with a spin. rate 70.7???
Because those are not comparable boats - you said yourself that the SX has a spinnaker. However, the 18sx's portsmouth number is based on real data. This means that either the caliber of sailors on them is low or there is something very slow about the boat.
Carl...Good Lord! Where did the Human Genome topic come from?
