Hi Dave

Didn,t realize the Marston or Eagle were 30 k --whew !

Wow -I,m gettin old ,-I remember{way back} buying my first then brand new state of the art H-18 for about 25 hundred --

The comp tip is a disaster ,-{another old sailing recollection} --they need one of these little faces with a long grey beard on it --After racing a Hobie 21 with 33 ft mast with comptip we were packing up ,---about half way down in lowering the mast the base slipped out and one of the crew tryed catching it ,--it was so heavy it broke his wrist ..--

Rather than China building it maybe just one of the smaller excellent build shops here ,---or perhaps some brilliant chemical engineer can develop C F or similar lightweight method of const. material that does not conduct electricity for H-US . Or best solution ,-import it just as the Tiger and market the new larger beam lightweight version FOX as a HT Formula 20 Class cat .Believe there is a set of rules outlined that the Morreli -Melvin design Ventilo model fits into among others .
http://www.morrellimelvin.com/page29.html


For 30 k catsailors might just as well go all out ,put a racing group of 3 or 4 togetherb--split costs ,-trade off as navigator helm and spin crew at events ,spend a little more and get the 33 footer . Mike at SAILMAX is attempting to put together several of these for next season .
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