I agree, in some ways wood is superior to glass (and the core doesn't dent the way it does on a Marstrom). The major problem is, it is expensive. It is more difficult to build a wooden production boat. You can't buy things premade up (for example prepreg) and subcontracting out is harder. Also wood is a commodity, some years are good and some years are not.

You could probably build a wooden Tornado that would meet or exceed the Marstrom. I have some friends in the exotic furniture buisness, the only hi tech wood buissness I know of, we came up with 3 ideas.

First, using a computer controled table cut single layers of venier and laminate them with kevlar cloth(for my core) into a mold pretty much the way Marstrom does. Price would be $28,000-30,000 minus sails based on 20/year.

Second, strip plank. Use a CNC router/cutter to cut each strip so there is an exact fit between each strip. Kevlar inside and glass outside. Price - a little cheaper

Third, wooden dowels. .5-1mm epoxy coated wooden dowels along with a dry filler are placed in a mold and then vacuumed. It is kinda like building things out of unidirectional carbon. If fact you could probably use hot melt the same way they do with carbon to hold the dowels into a sheet. I suggested something like this years ago to them to solve one of their weird problems, I have never heard of anything but a few pieces of high dollar furniture being built this way. Price - I have no idea

Something to think about