Dear Rolf
Many thanks for your thoughts...

With respect to..
e would all love to hear more from Singapore and the F16 sailing there. When will you form a national association and join the GC? Strange that the largest group of F16 boats have no say in the running of the F16 class. As the AHPC dealer in Singapore

We can/will tell you about cat sailing in Singapore... no problem.

National Association - probably never! Associations here are viewed upon in very strict terms - it is NOT like other countries in that respect. We can have a fleet 'nested' within our Club and can organise evnts under the Club... that's about as far as it will go.

Thank you for the recognition as an AHPC Dealer - and you sort of answer you're own question i.e. the rest of the contacts you have listed are Manfacturers and precisely my point, if the F16 Class can't get the 'big' factories involved we won't have much chance of getting the Class bigger around the world.

We do what we can to grow our F16 Fleet, seemingly its one of the biggest fleets around - which is pretty weird because we are quiet as far as the rest of the world is concerned!

One thing seems to bog me down though... we seem to be hung up on platform weights! If there was a platform weight the the 'big boys' could manufacture boats to, don't you think that would attract Nacra and Hobie... into the fold? And wouldn't that be good for the Class overall?

Is just a thought?

That seems to be a fundamental difference between F16 F18. 18's got the big factories involved when everyone said the platform weight was too high and it would never work - myself included. But because everyone could easily build a platform to that weight well its sort of grown dramatically. Mainly thanks to the money poured in by the big boys - but its good overall for cat sailing/racing... particularly now that the Tornado is retired!

cheers
Scott