Just a small fact check if you don't mind.
You are not a structural engineer, or a materials engineer, or a metalurgical engineer, or an aerospace emgineer,
or an aeronautical engineer or a marine engineer, and yet you have the nerve to critisize REAL engineers and builders
who have more years of experience designing and building boats than you have been walking.
Right !
Like any good young happening individual. I need to clear a path through a jungle of old boy entrenched has-beens. All proper engineers are over the age of 50 are fat and have an air an unmistakenbly aristrocracy. You know like the old gits on the fench :"That contraption will never fly because when I ..." That kind of stuff.
And for the hundredth time, the Taipan was originally designed with a spinnaker, long before you ever sailed anything.
I never knew that the Taipan was designed in 1982 ?
Besides where AHPC failed to market the Taipan with spinnaker we (I ?) succeeded.
The other Formulas had snuffers, self-tackers, curve tracks, raised cross-bars, etc, etc, before the f16.
Yes, I never said we were a development class not did I ever say that we pioneered these things so what is your point.
We do however offer carbon parts for less than halve the price of our competitors. We do offer cheap aluminium wingmasts as the only class. Stuff like that makes us unique I dare say. We also have a no-nonsense setup that works very well. We are a true formula class with 4 different builders offering 3 different designs. Try that with the F17.
The blade is just another rip-off of the Flyer design.
The f16 has been anything BUT a leader in design.
Try doublehanding the Flyer with kite please, and after you have swam back to shore try singlehanding the Carpricorn F18 with kite. After you have reached the shore without boat for the second time YOU as well will learned to see the uniqueness of the F16 class. That is if you have not busted your old boy back first when getting the F18 in the water.
We are doing something that has only been done by a few Australian class like the Mosquito and Taipan and only 1 single EU class ; The dart 18, but were are doing it on a international scale with multiple builders and at a asking price well below F18's and even more below the price of A-cats. I imagine you would do it in an afternoon.
Name one single innovation fron the f16 Class.
Why should I ? Did I ever claim that we were more innovative then other classes ? But if you want to hear one. We are fusing doublehander and singlehanded sailing into one single class while using spinnakers. This would qualify as an innovation. Not as an invention but as an innovation certainly.
The only thing unique about the f16 Class is that there is no true class organization.
YOU run it as your own little club.
Well it helped us survive all the attacks we have endured over the last years. One powerful guy actually threatened to do everything in his power to :"kill us off"; We are still here and he is nowhere to be found. We have a few inside attacks from OD sailors wanting to favour their own design with respect to others. The class rules are still open and favour NONE ! We started with NO true F16 boat builders in 2001 and now we have 3 builders who offer fully optimized F16 boats. We started with only a handful of sailors in USA, AUS and EU; after this februari we will have had inaugural F16 events on 5 different continents : America, Australia, Africa, Asia and Europe. All that in less than 4 years time and without the members paying membership fees. And more !
Maybe more classes should be run as somebodies "Own little club"
His name was Galileo and the building was the Tower of Pisa.
But of course YOU are smarter than him.
On the subject of catamaran design I know I am.
You seem to think if keep repeating the same lies over and over again, they will one day become true.
NOT!!!
Why don't you ask me one more time where my "virtual" Typhoon F16 is ? The boat you claim was never build.
I'm sure you remember your statements of past about this.
Wouter
