I resemble that remark! I was in my mid-thirties and would if I was in this years Worrell I would be in my late 60's...
I think this shirt says it all. But that must be Richard Spindler.
I actually made a scale model of my Worrell inspired knockoff of Slingshot. I was working in a boatshop in Nahant 'turbo'ing a Newick 40 tri. The Gougeon brothers had recently set a world speed sailing record with their hard chine ply main hull with half length amas mounted on an aluminum ladder...
If I were ever going to do the Worrell again (God forbid...) I think I would choose the SuperCat 20 again. I just wouldn't put a grossly overbuilt carbon wing mast with many untested ideas as we did the first time around. The Frenchman who designed and fabricated our mast had done his military...
I went to visit dear old Mum for the weekend and was telling my nephew the story of my entry in the 1997 Worrell and leading Randy Smyth (briefly...). Then I get home and read this! That year was pretty much 'run what you brung' and Smyth's custom Team Domino and our Gumbo Mudder SuperCat...