Let me put it this way.

I think we now have sold some 150 F16's and everybody in the world knows about them and that was after a huge promotion campaign during the first few years of that class. We started only 1 year before the launch of the Hobie Max.

I have only ever heard of the Hobie Max once, outside of the 2002 ISAF trials for a new youth boat, and that was last year when a crew from a neighbouring club brought to a club race of ours. I have not seen it ever again.

I have never seen it in any race results ever (except our own club race) and I do look up race results regulary from all place of the world.

I seriously doubt some 200 of them have been sold. That is like producing on average 35 boats a year ! Contrary to common believe that is a significant production run. The AHPC Taipan 4.9 was typically produced at an average rate of 25 boats per year (now 400 in total) and they are well known, pop up at regatta's regulary the world over.

It would be very weird for a 12.500 Euro glass boat (no resort market) to be sold over 200 times and still be such an absolute unknown and unseen design.

Wouter