Zuhl,

I'm going to make your life even harder !

Currently Matt has commitments for 7 boats. That is 7-1 = 6 are in the pipe line. There are 3 slots left before the supply of masts runs out and Matt has to get a new batch made.

From memory in the south east of USA we have :

Jennifers Boat
Hollis Caffee's Boat
Seth Sterns Boat
Rick Whites Boat
Chuck Harndens boat
Jeff Woodards boats
Kirt Simmons Boat (You may decide if we count him or not; he is in the Area D of the alter cup together with Florida)
Old Micheal Coffmans boat (I forget the name of the new owner)
Old David Swingles boat (I forget the name of the new owner)
There is another on in Florida since 2000 but he never posts on the F16 forum (I can't think of his name right now, sorry. I can look it up though)

This is 10 already. And I have a feeling I'm forgetting a boat at Gulfport cat club.

Of course Matts own boat, how can we forget that one !

So, well, 17 boats will be in the SE/Florida region in 2005 at least. I may have forgotten 1 here or there.

I hear Matt talk about promising additional commitments after a few scheduled test sails in Februari.

To cut a long story short. 17 at minimum (counting the committed slots) , probably around 20 within the year.

Yeah, this Blade F16 thing will be good to us. And thank God for that ! We worked hard at solving the exchange rate problem we had and this seems to have done the trick.


Ohh you also asked about F16's in the whole USA !

Ehh

California

3 Taipans, 1 Stealth, 1 one-off and I seem to remember that a wanna-be was there as well, don't know if he bought one yet. But 5 at minimum.

North East.

The group around Chip Zenke that is 4 boats (Chesapeak bay ?). Serementis, Zenke, Mullins and a 4th guy whose name I can't recall just now.


Ohio/Michigan
Bill Moran
Kenneth Newbury
Jerry Kailin

That is another 3

So that puts us at 17+5+4+3 = 29 boats already

I seem to remember that 1 or 2 boats are around the New York State/New Jersey area as well. I don't know what happened to Lars Gucks old boat. I sold Peter Cogans boat in 2002 to Alan Crawfort (Gulfport ?) . I know some boats were imported without me knowing about it. One of the californian ones was done that way. So make up your own estimate of boats that I don't know about.

Timer stop !

11 minutes, right. These are the boat I know of from the top of my head in 11 minutes.

I would say that around 30 is a estimate for the number of F16's for the whole USA

Ohh and David Parker at Gulfport Fl. is building up an F16 One-off right now that he hope will lead up to a full F16 in time.

Around 30 for sure if not a little over it. = Intelligent guess

Hope this helps !

Wouter