I am with Darryll here. Try to picture a Hobie 16 as a small, high skill windsurfer board. Great if you already know how to water start and feel safe in 20 knots but if a Noob asked what he should buy to learn on???

You won't feel like a wuss on the Windy (very easy to right) or Hobie 14 and you will be able to go out in 20 knots and flip it and right it and laugh your butt off with your mate and learn a heap....like keeping your face out of the way when the hulls comes back to the surface.
The following season you will have a strong set of skills to go onto the bigger boat with.
The power thing is no joke for a lot of people. I sail a Hydra 16, Taipan 16 and Tiger Shark 18 solo. I have a good water-wise friend who will not go near my 18 again after a reach that just set a desire not to hang off that particular bit of wire again in his mind.
If you have a partner who you want to introduce to the superb experience of cat sailing, a bad day on something as powerful as the H16 can be a very bad day.
Flip it when totally unaware and put her through the wires. Spend an hour trying many varied ways to right it while bucking up her spirits and wiping the blood from her forearm..........give up and spend an hour getting someones attention and then a half hour getting it upright. And then flip it three minutes later when the fizz boat is gone again.

Having said all of this. Hobie 16 sailors are always looking for cannon fodder. Learn the skills from another for free and then get your own.

Last words,,,on shore breeze.