Dan,

$8.5K is not a problem for me, but for the time being I'm looking for a Nacra boat for various reasons. If all that's available are newer Nacra F18s in the $11K range I'll probably go that route, but it'll take some agonizing.

There's no F18s in the group I sail with (mostly early 90s 5.8s and 18-2s), so I'd like to pick up a relatively cheap F-18, sail it for a year or two and re-sell it to another active sailor and buy a newer one for myself. Hopefully that way we can build a small fleet. If I have to spend $11K on one, I'd have a nice boat for myself but would have to drive 10 hours to find any competition until the bottom end of the used F-18 market comes down further. 5-7K is probably the price range that would get people to step up around here. Sad, but true.