OK, the part I don't get, maybe I'm slow, is where raising the min wt. will grow the class. The class can vote to outlaw carbon fiber hulls, masts, beams, what ever, and I surely do not want to see it go to a Marstrom All Carbon arms race, that will price most of us right out of the class, in fact that is the only thing keeping me from the A class right now, but I have no problem keeping the min wt. right where it is now, and I have not heard -any- F16 Class Members wanting it raised, only a few non-class members.

They are all welcome to join the class, pay their dues, and put it to a vote.

Are you saying it is "Impossible" to mass produce the boat to the present minimum weight? So what's the problem? Get as close as you can.

So who should pick the minumum wt? Some builder in Asia??

Wouter, where did the present minimum wt. come from when you guys wrote the original rules? Was it from the Taipan wooden homebuilts?