Vanguard Opti $2,600 nice roof rack $300 Less than $3K
Hobie Wave $4,400 nice roof r...oops! forgot it weighs 245 trailer and beach wheels $1,100 Can't just leave it over here by the shed, we have to pay storage???
I said "about $3000." There are other Opti manufacturers that charge more. My Wave price appears to be outdated. A Wave can definitely can be cartopped. At the events I've been to, there are several multi-Opti trailers, so I don't think that's critical anyway.
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F16/A class are in the same ballpark as opti/Wave<img src="http://www.catsailor.com/forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif" alt="" /> F12 discussion?
Well, you seem to have the mother of all tangents there. I was just trying to compare our most popular, least expensive boat to theirs. I'm not suggesting a Wave is remotely representative of how a Tornado sails, nor is an Opti representative of an A-Cup boat.
Read my message again. All I'm saying is that it probably wouldn't matter if we had a $1000 spinnaker-rigged cat. The Optis have an extremely impressive program, and that feeds the rest for monohulls.
