>> are we still "HP"?

Yes, our full name still is and will remain :""Formula 16 class for High Performance Catamarans"; " rule 2.1.1

This rule continues as follows :

"and her official abbreviations in order of preference are Formula 16, F16, Formula 16 HP and F16 HP"

Therefor our listing in handicap systems has been changed to Formula 16 and F16 rather than Formula 16 HP and F16HP.

Especially with the identifiers to seperate singlehanded mode from doublehanded mode make the older identifiers as
Formula16HP(1) overly complex; Especially under D-PN where a Taipan with spi would be denoted as TF16HPuni

So we simplified this to F16uni and F16, With for example taipans as TF16uni and TF16. Stealth will become SF16uni and SF16 and so on. That is when the D=PN committee decides to use the uni identifier to describe the solo configuration.

The second reason for this adjustment is that their is a change that a new Formula 16 class might be formed by a specific builder. It is likely to receive the name F16HT; as F16HP is hardly distinguisable from the the F16HT name we felt it would only lead to unnecessary confusion. Ofcourse this is just a precaution to a possible future development. At this time we are the only formula 16 class in the world and working at it to stay that way.

Wouter