Steve, …Bill Robert’s had the foresight to address the pitch pole problem right from the outset with his Super Cat designs. They are extremely resistant to pitch poleing. They incorporate the very things you are proposing in your “new boat”.

If the basic platform is flawed (such as the Hobie 16’s, with it’s propensity to pitch pole) then that “flaw” has to be addressed before one can fully take advantage of these other performance enhancements. Widening a Hobie 16 might lead to a totally false conclusion concerning the benefit of increased beam…blaming it (increased beam) instead of the of the Hobie’s innate tendency to pitch pole.