Basic marketing: If you want to sell a boat, you have to satisfy the wishes of the customers. There are also golf clubs out of CFRP and titanium and cars with four wheel drive which will never be driven outside of big cities, and so on. What counts is that they sell.

Every kilogram of resin, fibres or whatever is your boat from costs the builder something. Hence there is no interest in building heavy boats. BTW: manufacture costs and selling price are not the same.

Of course if somebody is convinced by the weight issue, his mind will be blocked until he get rid of the last gramm. As a marketing guy I would put even more fuel in this fire and offer extra sets of CFRP rudders and boards, dyneema sheets and so on.

Don't understand me wrong, I am very happy, that there are lightweight boats, because you can handle them so easy on the beach. But I concentrate on sailing and not on material.

Cheers,

Klaus