I've raced both F18's and F16's. Personally I see no conflict between these classes or even between the heavy weights and lightweight. I look at it more as complementary classes. Designs that will suit sailors of different opinion. I will personally never own a F18 but that doesn't mean that they don't have a good thing going on.

And thankfully for people like myselfs an equal performant lightweight alternative is available. Something that the BIG boat builders would never have offered when left to their own devices. In that sense Bon is completely right.

So maybe you are both right. But that is beside the point now as both options are now available.

Wouter