Guys and girls don't go off on one as soon as someone dares to challenge the F16 concept, so what, let them, if the manufacturers take the soft poor engineering route of the 104 group then so be it, at least it will sell tough hard wearing catamarans to the public even if they are a little slow and portly.

Joe public is not stupid and when the Blades and Stealths whizz past and then are pulled up the beach by one person, they'll take note and will probably aspire to that next level up on the next boat they buy.

The A class is as strong now as its probably ever been, why do people buy these over priced, light weight rockets when they know that 2 years down the line they will be out of date, beats me but I reckon its that " high tech " tag which counts for a lot so why consider dumbing down the F16 concept.

The F16 concept ticks a lot of boxes for a lot of prospective owners, it fits in well with handicap racing, has a growing world wide fleet with growing fleet races and is very versatile, what more can we want.