Rolf,

That is not the situation we have here in NL.

The official Royal Dutch Watersport Assocation (KNWV) argued that sailing fragile catamarans on the North sea was insane and wouldn't have anything to do with it. So cat sailors formed a rival organisation together with 2 other brances of sport that used the north sea. The organisation is called the NFB (Dutch surf sports association) and it pretty much became the association for cat sailors.

I think as good as all 40 beach clubs are members of the NFB and I think only 1 or 2 cat clubs are members of the official Dutch Watersport Association. The KNWV has been trying to muscle in for years now only recently have been succesful to some extend by forcing every catsailor who wants to do the Round Texel to own (= pay for) a certified KNWV racing license. Did went down too well and it is still not sure whether they are going to win this.

The cat clubs still aren't considering becoming members of the rival KNWV and none are willing to enforce the "KNWV racing license". At least we have a good chance of starring this KNWV plan down as we have our own organisation unifying us. I think every nation should have such a organisation empowering the cat sailors as only then you can stand up to these tactics and have a chance at winning. I'm very thankful that we have one here in NL

Wouter