18ft Skiff second hand sails

y not just get a formula windsurfer.. i sail on a 15ft skiff and a 16ft hobie cat . for srry to break it to every one but formula windsurfing just owns harder

The foiler Moths have wiped very good A Class cat fleets on several occasions, including the Sydney Brass Monkey a season or two back. Yes, an A is a lot quicker in the light stuff when the Moth isn't foiling, but to say that an A Class would destroy a good foiler Moth is just complete rubbish.

If you want kids exposed to cat sailing, what about stop acting like an arrogant and unimaginative person (which is how you come across when you abuse monos) and start working harder on getting kids into sailing junior cats.

Okay, we know that you have a personal preference for cats. That's fine. But to instantly abuse monos as you do is the sort of stuff that gives cat sailors a really bad name. Luckily, very few of them are really like you.

Yes, mono sailors know that cat are often quicker (although downwind or in light wind the Skiffs are pretty damn quick, and that's from someone who sails cats faster than yours and does it okay) but who cares? A tinny with a 15hp on the back is quicker than an A Class, a speed windsurfer is quicker than a Tornado, my grandmother would be quicker than Lance Armstrong or Cadel Evans on a bike, and I go faster in a Boeing than Mark Webber does in a F1 car. BFD, it's not all about speed.

PS - for many people, the fact that a mono is hard to keep up is part of the enjoyment. Not everyone likes it being easy to keep upright most the time. Yes, of course there is skill in cat sailing, but there are different types of skill and many people like the sort of skills that you need more of in a mono.

also, just to back up the fact i'm not bias, i completely support for tornado's to be reinstated as an olympic class and if the rumours are true that there will be no multi's at the Perth isaf worlds, then i have lost what little faith i had left in ISAF to make their decisions on the good of the sport as a whole.