...If some want to get all serious and succeed in building a F12 class that only accepts certain boats good luck to them, it may be perfect in their part of the globe, but it wouldn't work in my part of Australia because its doing the Hobie exclusion thing which is crap.
A Formula (box rule) is the way to go if the inclusion of existing cat classes is a goal. It certainly was a key goal during the development of the F16 class. I thought it wouldn't be the same in the F12 case because the four designs perform a lot better than the rotomolded cats, making inclusiveness of existing classes a formality: no kid would want the slower boats.
But if we focus on marketing instead of racing, manufacturers will certainly welcome the fact that one or more of their production cats is compliant to a Formula - something that can only happen with a OD class if they decide to produce it from scratch (i.e.: Hobie Tiger).
