Thought I'd stick in my .02, there was just a big study by the bike industry, and they were baffled by the fact that despite bikes getting better, there were less people getting into it. After a lot of focus groups, they realized an underlying problem; their product development people are enamoured with high tech, but the customers are intimidated by too many gears. So with this boat, maybe there is a whole world of people out there who might like sailing, but are intimidated by the thought of stepping a mast, or just plain don't enjoy going too fast! For me, I love being on the knife edge of control with the rudders screeching through the water, leaping from wave top to wave top, and enjoy the physical challenge of stepping my 6.0 mast single handedly. Is one better or worse? No, and I bet if you put 100 random people together and gave them a choise of setting up and launching a Tiger or the Adventure Island, a lot more would pick the A.I....