I agree, I think of our 16 as the throw and go boat, which no doubt attributes to their long standing success.

I'll say this, as Joe six-pack sailor, an old used H20 is barely within my budget reach, the F18 Tiger?...right now forget it. I have to wait for these boats to get old, then swap stories on resurrections. The thought of racing something "close" in performance to what I'm only reading about on these forums, at a total cost of $2,500 to $3,000, is a very intriguing possibility to me. Besides not knowing which direction to drive, it would be many, many miles before I found an open class regatta.

Justifying my curiousity.