Just for fun I gave Gina and Matt a F18 USPN rating in the Hagar race of last weekend

In such a case they have a corrected time of 4 hours 59 min and 48 sec and they will still correct out over the I-20's and F18's.

They are then beaten on corrected time by the H16 and the two totally revamped rating beaters, the singlehanded nacra 5.2 and Nacra 5.5 with spi additions, larger mainsails and in one case with jib as well.

So in this case it shows even more that something happened with the H16 as that crew will then have beaten all other crews (and all spinnaker boats) by 30 minutes or so which is a really large margin even for a distance race that lasted about 3 hours and 15 minutes.

But back to the topic the point to take away is that also the Hagar race results do not provide a basis that F16's can NOT race others of an F18 rating. Either that or Gina and Matt proof that they are just far better sailors even in their second sail on the new boat.

But as I say; just for fun, as the Hagar fleet is really too small to base any hard conclusions upon. nevertheless we have several 10th's of such race result by now. If anything, a trend can be spotted.

Wouter