Hi Steve,

If you read my post again you will see that I was refering to the worlds with regards to the paid pros. Not the Oz champs.

With regards to the Oz F-18 fleet. The Tiger sailors just happened to be the more experienced, better prepared, more seasond racers at this point in time. They have come from other Hobie classes where racing was very competitive.

As you see good sailors from other classes move into the F-18 class, you will see the other manufactures lift thier results. Gashby came from the top of the A's to join the hobie camp. Bundy came from T's to do likewise. Cookie and Fabio have come from a very experienced local Taipan 4.9 fleet and with only limited regattas in the Capricorn copared to others in the top and have done extremely well.

The Capricorn is a very quick boat and as we are seeing, top sailors are slowly looking at this class and Capricorn results are improving rapidly. We are already starting to see this in Europe and will start to see it in Oz very soon. It is only very early days for the Capricorn. Hobie have offered the likes of Bundy, Gashby, Booth ect(3 off the worlds best cat sailors) boats to compete in so as to stay on top of the leader board. AHPC are yet to offer one of their boats to a world class pro to get results for them.

See you on the water in the new season.