Ducati Scott,

JJ is right this thread is wondering off track.

We have discussed the "Big builder" issue many times over and it is no use starting it over again.

Personally, I recognize that my own activities too were a string of fortunes and mishaps yet we as a class were never desperate for big builders to enter and we never will be.

I was (we were) told from the very beginning that it would never work or that this and that was wrong. One particular friend to the class promised to run us into the ground and had definately had the money to make good on a promise. He tried for 3 years and then gave up, never to be heard of again.

I think we must pride ourselves that were are the only new catamaran class in the last 10 years to do a succesful startup. The big boys products are rather behind us then in front of us. That sort of spells to me that slow growth may well be a good thing and that all other approaches may actually be worse then ours.

In our imagination it can always be better still, but I wonder if reality agrees with that.

That is were I leave it. All other stuff has already been said many time over in other past threads.

Lets get back to JJ original intent

Wouter