Crap'n Neal® wrote:
...I would have been able to hug the coast even
closer than Nicorette and had a smooth and fast
ride.

In what, your bicycle?

.. They bragged about going 13 knots in six knots
of wind. Hah! Impossible.

Nope, it's fully possible.

... They need to check their
knot log. Even a Hobie can't make 13 knots in six
knots of wind.

Do you think that a Hobie is the fastest possible sailing machine? Which
one, the 33?

I beat Hobie 16s in the Johnson 18, sometimes without the spinnaker.

DSK