We were the only class providing boats. Well, that certainly is a bonus for us!

I really thought Hobie provided 16s a few years ago, and they were used for the Alter Cup finals as well as a Youth championship. Not sure about what's happened since.

The H16 with spinnaker will never be adopted as a class without a major, major fight, more than probably anyone has the energy or patience for. Very few people are actually against the spinnaker itself, but no one wants to see the H16 fleet divided like the H18s were years ago with all the different models.

The only way this could ever happen is if the rules were changed to require spinnakers on all H16s, but there might be a signifant dropoff of people who don't want to spend the money on the upgrade.

Anyway, that's a tangent. If you resigned from the Youth Championship Committee, do we have a replacement multihull sailor there?

Mike