Something cannot die if it has not yet been alive. That means there is still hope. Thanks to Vector Works, we now have a third boat builder for small cats in the United States.

So far no catalyst-type people have stepped forward to get F-16 fleets going in the United States. This is a very big country, and fleets have to be developed at the grass-roots level -- just like Hobie did it. And, heck, just like we did it with the Shark catamarans back in the early 1960's.

You don't have a racing class if you have one boat in Denver and another in Los Angeles and another in Seattle, and New England and Ohio and Florida, etc. You gotta get some regular, local F16 fleet racing going SOMEWHERE.