Yes we had a fun time down there in Newport. too bad we could not sail over the weekend due to the Gale in progress.

We learned lots and steadily improved our speed over the course of the week.

In short, Cogito is beatable for sure. So now both teams will spend the winter making more mods to find more speed and power.

either way we were very happy with our new boat and PL VI for that matter, the young guns sailed the crap out of PL and even beat both new boats one day.

Fred will sell PL to someone who really wants to seriously race C-cats and can show thay have the will and budget to do so. He doesn't want to see a boat end up in a barn collecting dust at this point.

Home build plans? Well again think budget first. Cogito without paying for labour still had at least $ 50 K in materials in it. 4000 to 5000 hours of labour.

These days you could cut that down a bit if you know how to use CAD files and can order CNC or Water jet cut parts.

Yesterday I asked our designer how heavy Cedar strip and carbon hulls would be and he figured about 110 pounds a peice, which isn;t bad. Beams could be made from CST carbon tubes from Australia.

You could do a wing with 1/8 marine ply, a bunch of carbon, a whole herd of arrow shafts and you could make a half decent wing comparable to PL VI which is still not a bad boat.

If someone ponies up the dough, I will design you a good wing for a case of beer, OK 4 cases of beer and a bottle of scotch.

It can be done. you won;t beat us but you'll destroy a soft sail boat and never stop smiling.

Keep in mind, PL is 20 years old, and still is a competetive boat.