I thought Johny Lovel and Charlie Olgoltree had one that he raced in the "Little America's Cup" and also Pete Johnstone had one that he pimped and painted silver metal flake or something.

I always liked the boat, it was very demanding in a blow and had no business being out in the open ocean in big waves and wind, of a Worrell type race, but in a bay or lake in a good blow it was great fun.

Since the Jav 2 there have been many new F18HT designs that have addressed the submarine bow syndrom. You should check out Andi's web site, he has pictures of most of the new designs.

Oh and It's faster than an Inter 20 unless you take it out in the big ocean waves.

I crewed for Andi one night in Switzerland in a local regatta, we finished in front of a pretty good Tornado team, boat for boat. But it was ideal HT conditions, where we could fly the hull most of the time and they only half the time.

It is a demanding boat to sail well, like a big A cat with a spinnaker.