But they are very expensive to design, develop and build, to the point that they would be prohibitive for pretty much all the current builders and thats not the point really..
No thats not quite the case, all the development cost has now been spent on the F20, to integrate that knowledge now into a slightly smaller boat is very minimal and it would spread the cost over more boats.
With modern CNC mills cutting out the moulds, its almost irrelavent whether the board is curved or straight and equally the cost is not significantly higher to produce, a mould is a mould.
But would I want to see them in the F16 class, not right now, perhaps in the future when all the development has taken place in the A's and other classes and we understand them better.
One thing for sure the performance of the F16's is only going to be marginally better with curved boards and greater gains could be found in other functions of design.
