Mark as you well know, we in England have to make a handicap for ourselves to then bring out the best in us, not sure why we do that but I would guess that the recent WC where Wales lost badly to some pretty low order teams and for England to go onto the final would sort of say it all.

Back to the RC-16, Coremat is its weight handicap, you will never get a light boat using Coremat but you will get cheap production and a very strong structure. I'm sure the moulds could be adapted very easily to make full Carbon foam Kevlar core but it would come at a cost of labour and material expense which would then lower the weight but raise the price to a more European level ( Stealth ) <img src="http://www.catsailor.com/forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif" alt="" />