Don't know much about the Balance A-cat, so ...

But I do know that "The Tool" was evaluated by Pieter Saarberg in the Netherlands. I don't know the ins and outs of it but it is my perception that Pieter is now importing "The Tool" instead of the Boyer A-cats (+ flyer) he used to import.

It may be that he also deals in the new Geltek Flyer 2 but I haven't seen that boat yet at hsi workshop so I don't really know. He also never mentioned it to me. We did talk about the Tool as that one was right in front of his shop when I went to the sailmaker next door.

It is a nice looking boat without a dolphinstriker setup (= glued in non-constant wall carbon beams)

His comments were that he was very pleased with the design, he felt it to be better then the Flyer. However I don't know how the Flyer 2 has progressed from the orginal Flyer and so I can't give you any info on that.

I must have some pictures laying around let me see if I can find those.

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I can't find my own pics of Saarbergs boat. I guess I lost them. They did mostly show the construction details and such.

If you haven't found the links to the Tool websited here they are :

http://www.thetool.com.au/

Here the confirmation that Pieter is indeed dealing in the Tool A-cat

http://www.a-cat.org/id102.htm


But as Boyer fibrecraft no longer exists I don't know who is producing this boat now. The latest I heared about the Tool moulds is that Jim Boyer gave them back to the real owner. I guessing that that is Wayne Mercer himself. But I haven't heared about him having a production facility.

Was this the kind of into you were looking for ?

Wouter