Steve,
Stuff must be really inexpensive over there in SA. I ran the numbers on a Blade last year, as you say, just assemble it myself. By the time I buy out the steering system, daggers and superwing mast (AHPC) AND three sails, battens, pole, snuffer AND two hulls I'm easily at your $6,800 USD, and there's still a lot of parts left to purchase (beam, boom, blocks, rigging, tramp, etc.) It was hard to see how it could be done for much less than $10K. Other than the superwing mast (and some dimensions) is there that much difference between the Mosquito and F16 class?
Our exchange rate with the Australia is crap, maybe we're looking in the wrong direction?
