Why do you think this?

There is no evidence that anyone wants to give up anything to form a F20 class. The idea has been tried and it failed, restarting it in the USA has also failed. A consensus around a common standard never evolved.

The N20's would prefer to race one design in distance and buoy racing and class members have said that they don't care if the F18 is as fast as the N20's. They don't want a sail measurement rule which would drive constant change in the sails. They want to be a SMOD class for the big boys. They do not see level racing with Olympic Tornado's as racing on a fair playing field.

The other 20 footer class... the Olympic Tornado is just praying for the IOC to raise it from the dead boat society in the Olympic medal decision to be made this August.

There are no US long distance races that is driving the owning of boats you want to race for line honors. The existing line honor boats in the USA are the Supercat 22 (several of them), the two Marstrom 20's and the single CFR 20 stay home in Florida and don't compete in the races open to them around the country. They all can be thumped by a well sailed RC 27 which enters the race.

In the EU, the Marstrom 20, Ventilo 20, Eagle 20, Macca's Super Taipan and various modifications to the Tornado. battle for the two man distance race line honor lead. It makes sense for Nacra to build a boat to compete in these races.

Remember, also that the EU has a viable 28 foot class. The Ventilo M2 Class. (three man teams). A viable 35 foot class, the Decision 35 and of course, the Ishares 40 class. (4 person teams). These boats will win line honors if allowed to enter.