The nearest F16 for any french sailors will be :

Blade F16 in Kokzijde (Belgium) ; should not be to far away from Boulogne Conception Marine (Cirrus designers). The owner frequents this forum and his is called Gill.

and

The Stealth F16 and Taipan F16's in Switzerland ; lake Geneva and the surrounding lakes. Their owners are not regulary readers of this forum.


The French market is very hard to penetrate. Especially since many of us do not speak and write French very well.

Any help will be warmly welcomed.

As such I advice you to contact the F16 Governing Council and coordinate any idea's that you have with them. If indeed a group of French sailors want to test sail a Blade F16 then I think that the European Blade importer would be very interested in working something out. Contact him through info@catamaranparts.nl . The European importer for the AHPC Viper F16's is Remco Kenbeek and he may well take the Viper along to say Carnac. He can be contacted through info@sailcenter.nl . Sadly there is no European importer for the Stealths at this time, but maybe something can be arranged with a private Stealth sailor for next years Carnac.

Personally I would love for some French crews to test sail the F16's and possibly have some French designers be attracted to designing and building a local F16. First and foremost because the French sailing scene is a world on its own. No class is truly international unless the French are part of it as well. And becoming succesful in French is a major boost to the depth of the F16 class, but in designs and sailors.

Wouter