The FX1 is not a good boat to sail singlehanded, very unforgiving on the water, difficult to right single handed and heavy to push around off, the Nacra F17 came in so many guises that no one was quite sure which model it was and all that the FX1 was above. We see it our club where a new owner of an FX1 arrives, sails for a couple of months and then the boat sits in the boat park with the other 5 parked FX1's. Shame as its a beautifully engineered and built boat.

Times and hull designs have moved a long ways since those two designs and I would suspect that some company somewhere will design a single handed with occassional two handed boat rather than vice a versa as at present. Datchet was a good example where the majority F16's sailed single handed, alas due to handicap and other issues that is not the case anymore, but certainly in the UK the consensus of thought was the F16 is a solo boat rather than dual.

I'm surprised that one of the A Class manufacturers haven't gotten involved as a single handed F16 is really only a short version of an A Class with a spinny on. The F16 market would seem a natural extension of their potential market.