I agree with you…the building materials/method of construction is twenty years old…yet they market it as something new and improved…you will notice in my earlier post I said some of the new boats/classes are marketed as High Tech/High Performance…I didn’t say whether they “were” actually High Tech/High Performance…:) that remains to be seen...and when a 20 + year old boardless beach cat design comes out of mothballs with a new sail plan and sails that well against current racing cats it calls a lot of things into question beyond just the PN of the ARC 17...
