Well mini's are ridiculously overpowered, but then I really am not interested in sailing a mini, nor a 24-26 foot version of a mini. For one thing, I want a boat that goes to windward well, and for another...while I don't mind some spaghetti in the cockpit, I don't need the kind of twiddly-bits-all-over-the-place that you get with a mini. Also, some breakage is inevitable, but Phils experience with breakage in WAFI is kind of sobering. Not interested, not this guy.
I'm really not thinking about "what stock, readily available design is good?" but rather, ----> If the collective genius of the SSS came up with a performance oriented, Pacific Coast singlehanded racing boat, what would it look like?
1968 Selmer Series 9 B-flat and A clarinets
1962 Buesher "Aristocrat" tenor saxophone
Piper One Design 24, Hull #35; "Alpha"