Jalani,
My point is that it is not necessary to extol the virtues of one boat by making derogatory comparisons to another. People tend to love their boats. For a lot of people their boat is the "best" boat for their purposes.

There is a lot of elitist, high-tech snobbery on this open forum, and it discourages a lot of sailors from participating in the discussion because they are afraid their boat is going to be bashed.

Why do you think we have a separate forum for the Hobie 16's?

A "better boat" has nothing to do with technology or materials or design or speed of the boat. It is an entirely subjective thing based upon a great number of factors.

It is not productive for the catamaran sailing community for anybody to say negative things about other classes of catamarans. We should all be supportive of everybody who has a multihull. And if somebody personally thinks some other cat is a piece of [censored], he should keep his mouth shut.