I think the mistake was made when HCA demanded that only Hobie boats could compete in HCA events.
The mistake was made before that. It was allowing open class in... to begin with. Restricting open class is a whole different can of worms, but Hobie Alter's concept of one design was a good one and is practiced by most one design classes.
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As I recall it was the comptip that killed the fox.
We actually sold the fox with aluminum masts after a VERY short attempt at using CompTips, so that wasn't it. I think the deal that killed it was here already. The I20 is sold in the USA with an over sized sail plan. The Fox was a Euro F20... we could have had an F20 fleet here in the US but for Performance making the I20 non-conforming.
