Whooa up here abit, AHPC produces an over weight F16 by choice, they have the ability if they wanted to, to shed quite a bit of weight, as the other manufacturers have done and have gone down the larger volume route because they think it makes a faster boat. Nothing wrong with that and that is their choice. Would the larger volume and by consequence, heavy hulls suit the single hander, that I would doubt.

Andrew keeps bringing up the issue of carbon, it is not the panacea everyone thinks for keeping weight down, there are limits to how thin the hull thickness can be before the stresses of launching and banging into things takes its toll. The biggest weight reduction programs would be in the ancillaries such as beams and more importantly the diet of beer and chips that the crew member eats whilst at a regatta.