Dear F16 sailors,

In follow up of the whole discussion, it is a shame that Rolf is even thinking about leaving the class because of the behavior and way of writing on this forum by people.
That is the problem, if somebody writes something on the forum and logic not everybody is agreeing with that because that’s not possible. When you have 100 people you will have 100 different points of views. The fact that the reaction often cannot be normal and is mostly or aggressive or very defensively can make it very unattractive to interested people who are reading the forum because they are interested in the class.

I think that the majority of people who is reacting on the forum should scratch the back of his head twice and think what he will write instead of giving an emotional, sometimes irrelevant, reply.
If we all (forum users) make an agreement with each other that we have to operate in the profit of the F16 class and first think about the F16 class and then about them selves and write this down in an behavior way then you will get a normal discussion where everybody can put his opinion on the forum without embarrassing others.

In follow up on what the GC is doing about communication. When there is an issue what should be known by the members then they communicate this with the members and they don’t do any secret thing what nobody may now.

I read a lot of the forum stuff (sometimes to much) and it crossed my mind a couple of times already why can’t this type of discussions not be done in a normal way.
So my call to everybody who wants the best for the F16 class please act like that.

Best regards,

Hans Klok
Chairman F16 Governing Council.

Btw The Spanish people did buy a Nacra 5.0 and not a F16 yet.