It is interesting to note that only "old" Hobies seem to have any life after death in a class racing environment. I certainly have my issues with Hobie as a benevolent manufacturer, but you have to recognize the existance of viable fleets and championships for virtually all of them.

Nacra has always been a leading edge force and while the Nacra 5.2 was a breakthough design, where can you race them now except in a mixed fleet. Once strong Prindle fleets have dried up. Sol Cat...who even remembers them?

This is not to condem these other manufacturers, only to enhance the topic being discussed.

What will you do with an Infusion or Capricorn in few years? We all hate handicap racing...right?

Apparently the NACRA North Americans only had I20 and N17 classes. Didn't they make 5.0, 5.2, 5.5, 5.7, 5.8, 6.0 and lets not get into the Prindles.

F16, F18 and A-Cats are great and thriving but there is an obvious obsolescent factor that can't be ignored.