Ehh sorry but I will have to set a few things straight here. With all due respect :
I'm not the one thats comparing them to F18's and Inter20's (which, as I noticed, were out playing in the "stuff")
Man, I think there were about a 100 times more F18's and F20's at Texel than F16's. Probably 40 % of the Texel fleet is made up of these. Little wonder that they show up in the pictures and not the boats of which only a handful are entered.
Please explain to me how showing up in the pictures in THIS situation (or not) says anything about the comparison between these 3 classes.
I didn't see a Spitfire in the pics either, still it won the open class. The only M20 I saw in the pics was the one that lay upside down in the surf being beaten to pieces. Still a M20 was second in the open class. I saw alot of pics of broken (F18) boats or (F18) boat that were about to be broken. According to your reasoning this "proofs" something.
Surely you can't be serious about what you said above.
Go put on a clinic Wouter. Show us how its done. Teach some of those "stupid" Worrell sailors how to launch through Jensen waves.
I'm calling you out. I don't think you can
No your not, you are just using a common debating trick. It is impossible to know for the readers wether I have been instructing how to negociate the local surf overhere for years or not (I have). And Yes, I gave a full explanation why I called certain worrell sailor stupid back then. Together with high res photo's of crews doing these very stupid things. Don't ask me to "make like a broken record" and repeat myself over and over again. Be a nice fellow and look up the posts yourself, before mouthing off. And ohh I'll be happy to teach those sailors that we ARE talking about (= NOT all worrell sailors of that year) how to do a surf if they care to fly over to my place. Afterall how I can teach them in an area where such a surf is uncommon ?
You know what why don't you come over with your boat and I'll show you how it is done personally.
Now I may be a mediocre racer but I sure as hell got a few years and bad-butt surfs under my belt by now. And yes, I'm not foolish enough to say that I can handle any surf. There is always a point were even the most experienced sailor need to say to himself : "Going out now is just stupid". Actually that was they way I started all my cat sailing instructions. "Know you limits !" and in sailing most of the "bad luck" is just an excuse for "bad seamanship".
And don't twist my words, thank you very much.
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