I recently bought and outfitted a Wave for my family and myself for fun and simplicity.

Now am on the prowl for a bigger boat.

The Nacra 17 or 580 look like the boats for the single-handed, sometimes two-person sailing I want.

To respond to your question, Mary. There are simply too many choices in bigger boats and too many rigging issues and too LITTLE information about the many questions that arise when looking into the bigger boats.

A buyer now, I think, simply throws his hands up and looks for something he can get his head around more simply.

What's the right term for a cat sailor who is into all the tweaks? Like a motor-head to car aficionados or a geek in the computer world... A tramp monkey? A centerboard-head?

It is a market of riddles, and like the thread on pitching boats noted, many people are somewhat more concerned that they NOT pitch, swim, break stuff -- and have a then fascinating (irony here) time putting everything back together -- when it was hard enough to put it all together in the first place.

The cause in my opinion falls at the feet of the builders.

The cat has evolved from the Hobie 14 experience to a myriad of too many choices with too many doodads, and it appears now to be swinging back to the Hobie 14 type experiences but with more power and an desire for more stability.

And if US Nacra doesn't do more marketing and I am going to be a sad man... and just go buy an A Cat.

I have given up on Hobie. If they would import the Hobie 15, I might love them instead.

/rant off