I usually stick to the open forum but I have been reading some of the F-16 buzz here and it is definently interesting.
I was thinking and realized that I will have a decent amount of extra money at the end of this summer and just thought that maybe if I sold my Nacra I would have enough to get into an F-16.
What is the cheapest way to get into the F-16 class. In my mind a homebuild would be. I recently saw some pictures of a guy building a F-16 on here and thought that maybe I could do it.

Any info on how to get started in this class would be appreciated.

About homebuilding. First a question, do you want to build or do you want to sail? Homebuilding is a lot of work, and it demands a suitable place to work. You will spend a lot of hours building, which cuts into your sailing time or time spent with your girlfriend.
A second point. If you want to build a boat yourself to save money, you should know that fitting the boat out is the really expensive part. Sails, lines, halyards, trampoline, blocks, cleats, perhaps professionally make rudders and daggerboards, mast, travelers for the jib and main, standing rigging etc. If you want to save substantial money, you need to buy a wreck of a cat with gear still usable on it (mast, beams, traveller, blocks, cleats etc) which you can use. Homebuilding your sails can also save substantial money. Are you an expert scrounger with time and the dedication to go trough all this?
Buying a used boat is probably the cheapest and most enjoyable way to get an F-16, unless you have special interest in boatbuilding or doing thing yourself for some reason.

Rolf is right.

He is giving the same advice that was given to me.

Pretty much if you want to have the boat quickly and sail then just get a second job for about a year and simply buy the boat.

I think I saved only 15 % of the cost by homebuilding. So don't do it because it will safe you money. Do it because you want to, enjoy the building and sailing something you build yourself or when you to fully control how it is build.

An alternative to complete homebuilding will be to buy two hulls and a mast of a professional builder and do all the other stuff yourself. This will still allow alot of freedom in how the boat is setup finally and gets you still about 50 % of the building enjoyment.

Yet another alternative is to buy one of the fully fitted Alter Cup boats (a handfull are still left) and it will one of the best deals of these years. They got all the new stuff and a price tack that will probably pay anyway when homebuilding but you'll have the boat this may and be sailing the next weekend.

I hear some other F16 sailors are looking into upgrading to an Alter Cup F16 boat themselfs, so second hand F16's are available for a range of asking prices. All these boats are still rather young so they will still give you many years of sailing pleasure at possibly a very attractive price. Mind you, F16's are in demand and so don't expect any extremely cheap offers. In the end you pay for what you get.

Wouter