Nacra and Hobie have now got themselves into a real dilemma, by not entering this market earlier. AHPC now holds the key dominant market share / marketing hype, with the Viper. For Nacra / Hobie to gain any foot hold into that market share, their product has to have a real perceived performance gain. The only real way they can do that is by reducing weight to class limits leaving the Viper as the over weight pup, at which stage AHPC would have to redress the weight issues with purpose built beams and rudder assemblies.

For the F16 class it would be a win win situation.