Thought long and hard about moving to a newer cat, but is hard to beat the hobie 16 or prindle 16 in terms of simplicity. Still like to go out and take nonsailors out for a nice sail. And some of the new boats i felt (IMHO) might be a little intimidating to them with all the lines and such. And also I often have to race solo so simplicity good again. My friend and I here are thinking of updating the sail plans on the boats to make them somewhat more uptodate but we also want to keep the over all controls the same. And you are right no one will buy the boat with all the new sails and such for what it is worth but plan on sailing it for and if want I can sail the new sails seprately. We shall see. But thanks for the advice.



Jody Abrams