<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; = charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2800.1126" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT size=2>Pretty scary first race, with all those equipment failures!  That pencil-end main boom is an interesting idea to save = weight, but it sure doesn't take side loads well, eh?  Should help keep it = out of the water when dead downwind in heavy air, too, which is always a risk = to punch it through the mast... ;-(  Haven't figured out that hull = appendage, though.  Does water actually pass between it and the = hull?</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2>--Cy Shuster--</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2>Rochester, MN</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2>(soon to be Bluefield, WV)</FONT></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; = BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV> <DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: = black"><B>From:</B> <A title=JStan40@aol.com = href="mailto:JStan40@aol.com">JStan40@aol.com</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A = title=pianotech@ptg.org href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">pianotech@ptg.org</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Monday, February 17, 2003 = 8:48 PM</DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> OT: Double-Kiwi = Match</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV><FONT face=arial,helvetica><FONT lang=0 = face="Book Antiqua" size=3 FAMILY="SERIF">Hey, Terry F. and Paul R-V,  how about = dat Alinghi?????<BR><BR>Stan Ryberg<BR>Barrington IL<BR>Associate = Member<BR><U><A href="mailto:jstan40@aol.com">mailto:jstan40@aol.com</A></U></FONT> </FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>