>>Who is "we" and who is "them" and how are you (the "we") going to help "them"?

I assume that with "them" you are refering to "others in the US contemplating building"

If so than I can be short about it. I will not announce names publically without the persons having disclosed themselfs on the F16 forum as buyers or builders. Privacy protection. I may name numbers; at this time we have 1 building (modified Taipan) en 2 very seriously thinking about starting building (Blade F16) in the USA.

With "we" I refer to other homebuilders in the class and the F16 class itself. Mostly in the area of advice regarding homebuilding. But we also have a network for parts now and can group purchases of saila and masts to lower the cost. With respect to masts we can do a little more in some situations as well.

Currently a Dutch guy is finishing up his homebuild Taipan F16 hulls (painting) and for example I arranged a free mainbeam for him when I was made aware of a broken mast section. Actually some Aussies did the same thing for me when I was looking for a mainbeam section. He plans to write an extra document detailing how to do somethings in a better way. Of course the designer of the Blade is very open to questions.

Things like that.

It really does help when there are people around with experience building your platform and who are willing to share the experiences.

Wouter