A friend was about to buy one with her husband. They
changed their mind when the rig blew up, sailing in 35
knots of wind.

I saw one of these for $4k. It was a demo for sale.
Since they have a habit of blowing apart, you have to
consider a chase boat too.

"Jonathan Ganz" wrote
Bart Senior .@. wrote:
a very cool small boat is more likely to impresses real sailors, since a
fast
small boat is more likely to give a quantum performance leaps and white
knuckle thrills.

You should go for the Hobie Tri-foiler....

http://www.hobiecat.com/sailing/models_trifoiler.html

Cool video..