The 50kg limit for a Paper Tiger is sans mast, boom mainsheet and sails, so its probably closer to 70-75kg with all the gear on it, so 55-60kg is still pretty agressive for something thats homebuilt or commercially produced. Another thing to think about is that if you set it too low, then a lot of creative people are going to start building carbon hulls which sort of defeats the purpose of trying to make these affordable.

I know that if I got aggressive, I could probably build one under 50kg rigged but it would have no end of expensive stuff on it to get there. These are not A-Class cats, just a better performing Opti that hopefully a bunch of kids will want. Wouters weight estimate is reasonable within the bounds of keeping it reasonably cheap/affordable.

As for the 12 ft, Im happy with that, what about everyone else ?
RG