Ah but the Viper is over weight by choice, not because it cannot comply to the class weight. It has traded the commercial cost saving of using heavier beams etc from its bigger brother and larger volume by design ( again by choice ), against the heavier weight penalty. Those commercial desicions have not handicapped the boat at all, it will become a very sucessful design within the F16 class.

There are a number of manufacturers who are now building to design weight and there is no reason why AHPC by design could not as well, it is their choice.