"It would not surprise me if Hobie jumps in first maybe even through an acquisition and Performance will have to follow shortly thereafter."
You'd think. Right now all they would have to do is re-badge an existing product.
With the new iCat, (which isn't an FXone but competes directly with it in market share), I would've figured they would've made that F16 compliant. Originally the talk was that it was just a carbon FXone, but the hull shape isn't the same at all. Seems foolish to me not to, now you just have a boat that just splinters another class. Hack off a foot in length on the iCat, change the sailplan to whatever it needs to be, and add some more resin/carbon to get it up to F16 weight.
I'd buy one.
