This is the reply from Angello
"Hello Paul,
Congratulations on ordering a St Francis 50. Everyone I know that owns one
is delighted. I was at the
Sydney Boatshow last week, and met Dave Wakeman,
the owner of Sirius which was on the show, having sailed her from South
Africa via
Panama. He is delighted with the
boat. A couple on months back I
sailed to
Tonga and saw Tom Walker before leaving Opua, owner of Quantum
Leap (St F 48 no 1) who is still enjoying the
boat hugely.
You have been misinformed. I am credited as
designer of the African
Fastcat
435 and 455, with my agreement. In addition to the acknowledgement on my website you can see my name credited on the Fastcat site also.
Kind Regards,
Angelo"
So it is clear that Angello does back the products of Gideon and that to me carries a lot of weight. It gives a lot of credibility to the Polars and performance claimed by Gideon. It also means that what I was told was totally untrue.
So I am left perplexed as to why the real world data that I am seeing does not back up the FastCat performance and why Gideon gets himself into so much hot
water by also providing misinformation such as his St Francis dealership and using figures and claimed facts very loosely.
Surely the solution is to have real world verified data on the FastCat? The data I have seen from the latest owner and the
Norway trip do not show a very fast boat. I would have expected to have faster trips with a St Francis.
The
delivery trip from
Africa to
Europe does not make sense either - it was very slow. How about the owners of the other two FastCats giving their verdicts and performance figures?