Congratulations to Nacra! I am eager to see what their design and marketing team brings to the class.

Relative to the rest of the nonsense in this thread, bringing performance beach cats to the masses in an affordable manner is a series of compromises and what the market will bare. Looks like Nacra is taking a page out of AHPC's plan for qualifying as a 104 class also. Frankly, the F16 rig is very powerful and weight is proving not to be a significant handicap with the newer hull designs, especially amoung the club racing crowd.