I sailed the Fox a couple of times and I thought the writing was on the wall from the moment the boat landed here. If you don't even look at the comp tip debacle, the smaller sails doomed it. Why buy a Fox when the I20 is faster? That's how people perceived it.

I sailed the Fox a couple of times, it went nicely. Sadly, however I felt at that moment that a US-F20 was even more of a pipe dream. IMHO, it was Hobie's arrogance that got it killed. "Performance isn't meeting F20, but we will... they'll just be happy to be on a Hobie 20' boat with spi". Wrong. People just wanna go fast, lol

It has been discussed... b/c I talked a/b it with some friends... putting an I20 rig on the H20... ;-)

Sadly, as most everyone else has said, money talks. Unfortunately, tradition and good will won't get very far in feeding people and paying the mortgage.