I had a bit of sticker shock also after reading the production Blade F16 was $24k. After rechecking my Mozzie building spreadsheet which comes out at $16500 using commercial built hulls at $8k and spending an additional $8.5k purchasing everything else including spinnaker it looks reasonable. I haven't taken the labour cost into account to put the Mozzy together and building the trailer as I was doing it myself.
If you take into account the cost of labour and the fact the Blade is a latest technology cat so almost every part will cost more then a Mozzy $24k looks alright particularly if that was an optimistic preproduction price.
The A looks to be overpriced and poor resale price of an A makes a new one a very expensive purchase, a bargain secondhand cat though.

Darryn
Mozzie 1782