There seems to be some confusion that this was about the Tornado. This vote had NOTHING to do with Tornado and/or any of it's costs associated with it. This wsa a vote against an open multihull class. Next vote would have had to do with equipment.

In fact, the Star is by far the most expensive boat in the Olympics. You can fit 10 Ts in a container and what - two of the 6 knot beasts.

This was an anti multihull vote advocated by US Sailing from the get go. What makes it worse is their smoke and mirrors proposal of two multhull classes fully knowing that their delegates were not going to vote for them.

Whether you like the T or not (personally I20 doesn't come even close buy anyway) this has a huge effect on all catamaran sailing everywhere. The level of competition in the Ts is unrivaled by any other class and those sailors raise the level of competition in other classes like the F18s and A cats.

I would love to hear PUs take on this and whether this would be a good time for IHCA to separate from ISAF. Hobie has a chance here to step up and take the lead.