Hi Eric, All it takes is money. The tooling that Aquarius has was built back in the 1980s and that is all there is. You guys stand around and say "build a new boat of this or that size and the world will beat a path to your door". Been there and done that and it doesn't work. The telescoping SC20 won the OAK Regatta in 1981 by a wide margin over all the California hot dogs. The SC20 had a demonstrated and substantiated PN of 62 and the Tornado had a PN of 64 in the early and mid 1980s. The tall rig 20 was 60.I gave the sailing public what they "said" they wanted (a boat faster than the Tornado) and I built it and then they didn't want it afterall. A couple of hunderd boats were sold over ten years; not enough to keep a boat company in business. I lost a nice retirement building the SC product line. The SC 17 is the only boat I designed that made any money/profit. I have some sensitive scar tissue, Eric. Understand now why there is an ARC17 effort? Good Sailing, Bill Good Sailing, Bill
