Zee (Sarah)
Somewhere in this thread it was asked if spinnaker sailing is a high priority for you. And I fully agree with him that that is fully for you to decide.
However I just came across some footage that shows in an excellent way why a spi in 7 to 15 knots is just a massive blast.
Look for the part where a similar type boat without a spi is overtaken, about halveway in the clip. This was in 7 knots of wind.
Download to disk first then play, some browser mess of the view ratio and compress the video into a compressed rectangle.
So in the spirit of 60 second of footage tell more then a 1000 words.
Enjoy :
http://www.xs4all.nl/~whijink/Taipan_F16_promo_video_part_2.mpeg And here a bonus video clip.
http://www.xs4all.nl/~whijink/Stealth_F16_1up_racing_datchet.wmvWouter