Today I was talking to an older man that lives down the street. He is very intelligent and has really taken an interest in my catamaran. I regularly sit and talk for hours with him about ways to improve sailing and I must say that he has some pretty cool ideas.

But on the primary subject. Tonight when we were talking he said that he thinks that Hobie and the other catamaran companies are holding back on their designs.
His theory is that all of them have a faster catamaran on the drawing board somewhere but don't want to produce it because once they do they will have peaked and will not be able to make a faster boat, hence it would cause them to no longer be needed because a small company would be able to copy the design. He thinks that if they slowly work up towards the top of the line boat they will be able to sell alot more boats.

So what do you all think, are the companies holding back?? or are they doing everything they can to bring us sailors the fastest boat possible? <img src="http://www.catsailor.com/forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif" alt="" />