I am not saying that 12mR is the only way to go, I say that match racing should be match racing, not an ultra-high tech computerized drag race in super expensive machines that are so complex that they have extremely little in common with anything else that floats on the water. Untill now there has been very few races in which the result was not predictable a few minutes after the start. And due to the boat speed the duration of each race is so short that it is almost impossible to recover from a mistake, bad wind shift or difficult position. TV/sponsor/onlooker-friendly - yes. Spectacular speed - yes. Fascinating boat engineering - yes. True match racing - sorry, no.
Sounds just like Formular 1 cars....
Right, but F1 races are "fleet races", so there is always a close fight somerwhere, there are points to be gained and there is a next race coming up un a week or two with new possibilities. And there is the duration aspect. An F1 take more than an hour, usually aprox. 60 rounds round the track, pit stops, tyre changes etc. So there is more than one single opportunity to make your gains. Who would want to see an F1 race with two cars match racing each other going continously round the track a few times and then it is over? The beauty and exitement of for instance tennis (or soccer, for that matter) is it's simplicity. Now big boat sail racing can never reach that level of simplicity, there is always equipment and tecnology involved. But AC75 as match racers? Again, sorry, no.
