I agree with Phill that this forum isn't the place to do marketing for the class. It's an excellent place to help new sailors getting to know their boats and so on...

According to me there are 2 ways to approach the market, both should be used.

1 talk to the manufactures, a difficult thing to do.
I already contacted Boulogne concept marine (Cirrus) and Nacra Europe. Both selling 'F104' at the moment, so they didn't say they'd change their platforms right away. Still Cirrus did not really know about the F16 or that it was an active community.... In that way it was kind of a good result. I think if you can remind them of the F16 once in a while and get them interested it could be a good thing.
Still got Hobie on my list....

2 approach the buyers.
At the moment Kathleen and I are trying to rework the F16 flyer and maybe someone should also make or distribute a A4 or A3 poster that could be hung out at club houses.

As we said before also the F16 logo should always be in the sail. That way interested people know what to look for on the internet.

A newsletter could also be set-up to send out. You can send it to other catsailors you know, to constructors, .... Just to make F16 something common, something that is talked about.

Alter Cup. I think it is a great concept and should be tried out more. Maybe not as a real race, but get introduction weekends with at least 5 to 10 boats. It's nice to see on the beach and a lot of people can be reached.

Last and maybe most important, racing. We should compete in international regatta's (and the best would be to beat a lot of FXOne, Inter17 and ofcourse F18 or at least be as good as them).

Something interesting could be monitoring the F16website and checking number of vistors, where they come from, search words, ... We had a small article in a belgian sailing magazine for example and it would be nice to see if that had any effect....

Regards,
Gill