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As said before, the best F-18 is the one you are on......

However the fastest F-18 is the one that Bundy and Gashby are on

OK..... Hobie Tiger has won every F-18 Worlds with the exception of one. That was won by a Cirrus.

Now (popcorn ready)..... A large part of Hobies success is because of the sailors on them.... They have taken the smart route by employing Olympic Tornado campaigners to race. With minimum cost to them they are riding the wave of Government and private sponnsor funded training and sailor development..... The Olympic pros are indead in a different league to other sailors and it was a very smart move on Hobies behalf to utalise them..... Other manufactures should take note.

Now if you take out the top Tornado sailors from the results and then have another look....... Both the Tiger and Capricorn are very solid performers. With Booth and Bundy removed from the finishing results, the Capricorn was the next best placed boat in 3rd and a Capricorn was leading the event outright until it OCS in the last race and threw it away. This was also the Capricorn's 2nd Worlds after debuting at 5th in last years event...... Look out Tigers

The old NACRA...... well there is a reason why they updated the design.... The new boat is untested on an International level and will be interesting to see how it compares to the Capricorn and Tiger.

I also believe the Flyer showed good pace at its first Worlds.... Have not heared much about it since.


Hahahaha yes Steve, the Capricorn is odviously the best boat because we shouldn't count the first 2 boats because IMHO those sailors are too good!

Thats like saying I would have won the football game last week except I missed the goal.

Tiger Mike

P.s. I prefer the M&M's over popcorn.