This thread is persisting because many people are excited about this new SAILING product. We have a group of us with AI's doing a long distance sailing trip this weekend with AI's and many in this group are very active sailing of multihull and monohull classes. I don't know about other areas that people live in but in our area the AI is a great hit and is bring diverse sailing groups together, which is great for sailing in general and also for Hobie. Honestly I have not seen this much excitement except back when the H16 first came out. The AI is great fun and sails great. When it comes to paddling regular kayaks jsut can't keep up particularly when you are pedaling or sailing. There is just nothing on the market that is so much fun, simple, great to sail.