Mary,
I called HobieCat and Matt wasn't in, but I talked to Jack or Jacque??. He said that it's possible that since they supplied all the national boats back then, they would of started building early, but he thought it was weird that an 89 boat would of been built in August of 87. He did say that they are now making 16s for the World Championships in April of 04. He also mentioned that they build on average about eight 16s per day.
Jack

Wow, pretty cool Jack. An 89 built in 87



Sure sounds like a lot of 16s running around. No wonder the things are dirt cheap.

John
Palmdale, CA
H16

At 8 H16s per day, that is probably like 2000 per year max, which is probably a fraction of what they were making 15 or 20 years ago.
Jack