Klaus, have you been able to follow Andrew's logic that a heavier minimum weight would make for a better class? It escapes me completely.
Macca is abrasive, but his premise are that by making the minimum weight heavier we will:
* make the class more attractive to more builders who can achieve this weight for a lower cost
* Lower the cost of the boats
* prevent a lone rogue building a very expensive on-shot light boat all in carbon to th eminimum specs but very rigid and kill us all around the buoys.
Klaus, what you are missing is *volume*. The more you sell the cheaper it get. If a manufacturer sells more F18 than F16 and have specific parts for both the F16 will cost more to manufacture.
