mine is....... <img src="http://www.catsailor.com/forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

So a Viper is a F16 when YOU want it to be one, but its not when it doesn't suit YOUR purpose?

How about you answer the question:-

How many current F16 boats are under min weight?

And further, what percentage of the known fleet are under min weight?

Someone must have the data! otherwise the "Science" you speak of is all theory....again...

Come on moderators, this thread is going around and around and around and around in circles going nowhere, isn't it time you did your jobs and get this forum back on track <img src="http://www.catsailor.com/forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif" alt="" />

Agreed! Back on track or lock it.....

I thought we now had a class association in the United States. No? And how does a national association get "fully ratified"?

Sorry if I am asking something that has already been answered somewhere.

How can you even consider that the thread is off track??

The original question was asking if big manufacturers would be of benefit to the class if they were to build an F16 compliant boat.

The discussion has evolved to how the current builders are faring with meeting the current class rules particularly with regards to meeting the min weight rule. This has a major bearing on whether the big manufacturers actually get involved!!

So we are still very much ON topic here.

Just because the answers are not to your liking, the thread is still valid and moderators would be censors if they shut it down now.

Macca you steer every thread around to whether the big manufacturers can build to min weight. You have been there 20 times already, you are killing off any conversation we may have with the same gospel, give it a rest and go and do some sailing please, we would all be better off.

But could someone PLEASE weigh their F16? To see if it does indeed meet the min. weight specs given by the F16 box rule?

I mean, whether it is off topic or not, it is very interesting to see if the manufacturers can keep what they promise. Don't you all think??

I ddn't need to steer it at all!

That is the conversation!! the whole topic is about what I am talking about.



Now I am asking if the CURRENT builders can build to min weight <img src="http://www.catsailor.com/forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

How about somebody supply the data we are asking for? the facts will either silence me or give me the credibility I crave so dearly <img src="http://www.catsailor.com/forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

Yes we have and there are boats already under 104 kilos, I beleive Hans ( the class chairman ) Blade had to ballasted up to meet the 104 kgs at the last GC. Stealth have been right on the limits since 2001. The weight limits are where the members want it to be.

So that is a total of ONE boat under min weight??

How about the actual real weight of the Stealths? has anyone actually weighed them properly?

Seems to me the most logical way to establish if the min weight is correct would be to check each boat that is considered to be F16 (don't use Wouters method of determining what an F16 is, fundamentally flawed...) and then decide based in the results if the weight needs reviewing. No point having a Min weight that only ONE boat meets!

The racing will not be fair and it needs to be fair if you want the class to grow. Or doesn't that little bit extra weight make any difference to performance?

The US has an Association already, to date it has not applied to the F16GC for membership but we expect that will change very soon. The AUS Association is currently being formed and I understand that an application for ratification will be made by them in the next few days.

There is a lot of positive work being done by people in several countries at this time to progress the class.

As the moderators seem unable to " moderate " for fear of being accused of censoring this thread, may I remind everbody of the original start of this thread.

"Would the F16 Class gain more respect and sailors if say either Nacra or Hobie developed a F16. I think most of us would agree that their marketing power and name certainly wouldn't do the Class any harm. I'm NOT trying to fan the flames of a recent thread but I'm interested in knowing how F16 Sailors feel about the future of the Class. Do they see it continuing as it is with just a small group of manufacturers servicing a small market or do people really expect F16's to be on a par with F18 sales in a couple of years time? "

Please, it had nothing to do with weight. <img src="http://www.catsailor.com/forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif" alt="" />

If you don't want to hear what someone has to say, use your ignore button! And stop responding!

I have tried this remedy, it works.

For Hobie or Nacra to build a F16 it would have to be on he premise that the min weight was up for discussion so therefore it is STILL ON TOPIC.

So what? You have a way of irritating the other posters. Keep it up, eventually you will be ignored.

Speaking as a moderator, I see the current discussion as a repetition of what has been said from both sides many times over in several threads already.

I re-post what Phill posted earlier:


I think the message is pretty clear.
Lets move on.

Great, you don't like the way the discussion is going because the answers are not favourable so you stick your head in the sand hoping it will all go away...

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