[quote=samc99us]About 120-130 degrees TWA, 18-22kts of breeze and flat water with the kite up.
Even heavy, the Fox should kill the Hobie 18 on a standard W-L course. The Hobie 18 doesn't point nearly as well as a modern spinnaker cat and goes about 2 kts slower upwind, and downwind without the kite it gets killed.
At the same time, the Fox doesn't handle weight particularly well. It is essentially a scaled up A-Cat. Going 3 up on that boat would hinder it a bunch, and like bacho points out, they aren't all that fast on a reach anyway.
The Hobie 16, 18 vs. a modern F18 or 20 footer are reasonably close on a reach, though the new hull shapes in the F18 (semi-planing) and C-boards in the 20 footers make that contest pretty open and shut as well.[/quote]
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