I think the US association is the first to even have paying F16 members at all. For the last 5 years we'd run the F16 class as a free membership class with volunteers doing all the work. I'm still not paying any membership fees, although I do pay for the www.formula16.org and www.formula16.com URL's. Paul is supplying us with the best hosting site of any catamaran class (unlimited bandwidth and space). Robi provides free grafics support, Phill is our free-of-charge technical support desk. Seth Stern is our main (for the love of it) F16 event organisor in USA and I can continue with a score of other people ....

This is not a pay-to-play class, but truly an owners driven association of volunteers. Great fun. We even have a team of volunteers working on new developments. Some of us are working on sailand rig development, others on hull developments and yet others again on production improvements. All pretty much for the love of it and the kick of experiencing succes. We are not much a run of mill class, we are different in many aspects.

But to answer your question. There can only be paying members in the USA at this time as the rest of the F16 sailors in the worlds are still operating under the free-of-charge memberships. I don't whether there are 20 or not. I do know that significantly more F16's are being sailed in the USA then 20 so ...

Wouter