Folks,

at my club there is no program for those who grow out of the Opti. We also loose a lot of the elder kids in the Opti program, pretty much like everywhere else due to different and much debated reasons.
Nationally there is a small 29er class and we have one of those at the club. Nice boat, but hard to sail and no expertise at the club so it has fizzled.

A friend and I was discussing if we could get a program going for those growing out of the Opti. The F16 is a bit potent and hard to right for these kids? Or? What class should we aim for and why? We would like an easy to sail but still challenging doublehander. The "market" is wide open, but since we both are multihull evangelists, we would obviously like it to be a multihull. Options, and why?

We discussed the Dart16X briefly. Good or no good for this application? Ref: http://www.seilvind.no/Dartbreng.pdf

Obviously, if we are to start something, we would probably need to run the program personally for 3-4 years, so it would be a long term comittment both for us and the club. But if this could create the basis for an F-16 class both locally and nationally, hey..