>>>if anyone else agrees with me maybe we should write ISAF and or the manufacturers.

I can tell you that other and even other manufacturers were interested and even planning to send a boat for the trail. They won't attend now because to the criteria set. No Boards, boomless and such pretty much cancelled all the High Performance boats like F18's, F16's and even the FX-one (2-up)- I17 (2-up) which could be a good teenage boat.

I personally hope that the KL booster wins, that is still a good boat for the given conditions. The other entries are either passee, won't take a spi well, to slow or just plain recreational boats. Did you know that the Dart 16 is only 13 points slower than a Hobie 16 under Texel (= 9 points under PN). Boats like the youth 29-er monohull class will outsail that one, that is of course bad promo for cats.

And than we have that requirement that the class must be strict one design while all trully international classes like Tornado, A-cat and F18's are far more formula like than one design. ISAF should go with the times and leave that yachting one-design mentallity behind when looking at surfboards and high performance boats like cats and dinghies.

Than the maximum price 7000-8000 Euro. Hell a standard laser 1 (with alomst nothing on it) already costs near to 6000 Euro. How do you build a High Performance cat with two additional sails, more and higher quality blocks due to much higher loads and such for only 1000 euro more ?

This is a bad trail setup. They will end up with a rotomolded, underpowered, boomless, under fitted, one size fits all catamaran that can't hold a candle to simple designs like the Nacra 5.0, Prindle 16 and let alone the even faster 16 and 17 foot designs.

I've sailed the dragoon myself and I can assure you that that baby is harder to right than a larger P16. Smaller boats aren't always easier to handle. Below a certain threshold they become even harder to handle. Remember the H14, sailing that boat is like performing ballet and both the 14 and dragoon have a nasty tendency to go turtle. (Personally I do enjoy a bit of H14 sailing so I'm not bashing anything)

This is just the promo that the cat community shouldn't want. Does the 29-er youth class have a replacable keel, Bumpers on the front and back ? Why on earth should catamaran have them ?

If anybody takes the initiative to start a petition than you can count on my signature.

Wouter