Proliferation of single handers

I think there is a future in this formula thing.  The Fast Sail dinghies are sort of doing the same thing.  They are all very similar but not the same but by keeping together they get stength in numbers.  We need a lead here - I din't know who was responsible for the cat handicap system but something similar wold be a way of developing some good close racing.

Or do we have it already with:

2 man non trapeze and conventional kite = Merlin

2 man non trapeze and no kite = N12

2 man both trapeze and asymmetric = International 14

not forgetting Moths and Cherubs who have their niche.

You know looking at it from this context the Cherubs might have made a mistake by going to 2 strings because there's certainly a gap for a one string boat.

I think Hobie and Nacra are actually making a mistake here, they sell on longevity and brand. If they make a fast A class, it will be fast for a while and then something else will come along. 

I'll not be buying the A2 or Hobie offering becasue I don't want to get into an arms race.   Says the man who might buy an M18 which will probably be the only one in the country and will spend all his time handicap racing.....

Chris, re A class date, too it from here :

http://www.aclasscatamaran.co.uk/history.html

I understand.

But there are now so many competing similar single handed classes (moth not included) eg, RS600,700,Viz,musto,swift etc how many will really survive as a class in 10 years time?

The cats on the other hand have teamed up with their new mixed fleet formula classes, F14,F18 etc to get a decent fleet. Maybe those one design monohulls could team up too. Formula overweight and overpowered ,           Ha Ha!

I am not saying that any one Laser (for example) is out of date. It's the nature of any strict one design that since their rules are frozen that the whole class is out of date from conception relative to newer classes or any development class.

Also there are plenty of Hungry Tigers with hydrofoils, well four of them so far.