I've been asked to write something on handicap racing for the Canoe nbewsletter (dunno why me, I never manage to win any races) and it occurred to me that a useful point of comparison would be with the Cherub as regards relative performance on courses etc. Trouble is my days long predated GPS logging, so I'm not entirely sure what numbers we really did.
In the IC, on a lightish airs day, I seem to run at around 4 or 5 knots upwind, 5 or 6 deep downwind, and around 9 or 10 crosswind (the old one design hull seems to top out about 15). Which is interesting in itself, because if you asked me I'd have said that the beating was faster than the runs, but the GPS says I'm wrong.
Anyway, obviously the Cherub is going to be very very different, and I'm sure some of you have done enough GPS logging to be able to give me some ideas about what the relative numbers are. Any thoughts?