You refer to a difference between the Dart Hawk and nacra F18. Can you point me to data suggesting this ?
I was just using the box rule as apointer to the fact the boats evolve and so that they get faster, so making a moving target the focal point does not appear correct to me.
Dart 18, Dart 15 and H5.9 are simply to small as a class to act as reference classes. Furthermore only the Dart 18 has some international presence but only in Europe. Then of course the Dart 18 production will be discontinued in 2005 and it is badly situated in relation to other classes. Why use dart 18 as a reference when this design makes up less than 5 % of the fleet in all European regatta's with the possible exception of UK events. You will only get very very limited comparison data this way.
Does it matter that there are only 8000 Dart 18's and 2000 Dart 15's (approx) in the country. OK, if you don't like the Dart, use the Nacra 5.0, 5.5, 5.8 and 6 ?
The dart 18 is not being discontinued and neither is the Dart 15. The Dart 15 Class association in the UK now 'own' the designa and the boat is being re-named as the laser centre no longer have involvement. The D15 will be made in Sought Africa starting sometine in 2005.
