With all the variations of A cat curved boards being experimented with are there any "existing" A cat curved boards that could be fitted for use in an F16 effectively? $20 for tooling?...no but the $15,000.00 estimate is just as absurd on the other end of the scale. A CNC machine doen't care if its a curved board or a straight one.
Things get so ridiculously overstated on these forums...speeds, weights, costs...very rarely are things kept in the world of reality...and they think fishermen overestimate...obviously they never met a cat sailor.
Try actually building the tools for a production run of curved foils, then after you have successfully built foils that are of the correct shape, twist and bend all the while not breaking in the kind of use that they need to withstand and then you can tell us all how much it really costs.
I bet you end up a lot closer to my estimate that you thought...
