Ehhh, right.

I posted in this thread as I'm also an former Texel rating official and I saw a few false statements regarding the Texel ratings that were best corrected.

I'm sorry if that pisses you off.

With regard to support. I'm glad that you get that from your local Nacra and Hobie agents. Honestly, the F16 class is structured differently; here the class members are also the support structure. Someone locally makes this class happen (and this did happen succesfully at many places around the world) and the fleet doesn't dependent on commericial agents to do the job for them. The specs of the F16 boats demand such independence or we too would weight the same as a Hobie 16 and cost as much as a new F18.

Personally, I feel the Aussie version of the Inter 17 is a nice boat. I don't like the EU version (far to slow) and respect the US version (F17) because the latter is fast modern design.

Regards,

Wouter