FYI Dave in Minnesota: The F16 is a nice boat, even considering one myself right now, but me and about 9 other guys in Southern MN/Northern Iowa/Eastern SD have Hobie 17s and its a single hander but you can put the wife on there for bombing around and we race about once a month within 3 hours of you mostly. PLUS, we have tried (albeit not as successfully this year) to ensure ourselve on the very coridial Wisconsin guys at Madison once a year. Price point will be a bit (**** ton as Karlos says) lower on the Hobie 17 and we have a one design fleet in place, close by.