BEL666 wrote:
I was also reading on the forum and saw that some people were throwing bad commets towards the F16 without any reason or grounding for it.
At the Global Challenge in Holland in 2007 all the competing cats didn't break ANYTHING in waves of 1,5 metres and 5 beaufort of wind with gusts above that!
That person also said the boats were to light and that was why they broke. Now if you compare to the new BIM 16foot or A-cat you all know that is quite a silly reason.
Regards,
Gill
That would be me making most of the nasty comments on the F16. I was just going off of what another sailor, (dear GOD, he wasn't even a Hobie sailor), told me about the F16 and I would take his word as gospel.
Weight is directly proportional to strength material for material, workmanship for workmanship. Hell, my boat is probably more brittle than I'd like. Being underbuilt to make weight is one thing entirely different. And who know's, maybe things have changed, I've started to hear a few people owning up to the shortcomings in build quality in the earlier models. Get over it, this is the growing pains of virtually every new product. Computer products, cars whatever, the newest thing usually is unreliable untill the bugs are worked out. It's a cool platform and a cool concept. I'm sure it will do very well in the years to come.
As far as F16's in the US go there isn't that many. i think most of them are in Florida and Texas. In the midwest it is purely Hobies and some Nacra's.
Take your F16 preaching to Catsailor.
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