Wouter, you're not the first to suggest that I and the rest of the many volunteers on the Council (and those putting on our ladder events and two championships) are dupes, pawns and the instruments of the devil. After you get done insulting my intelligence, you say it isn't personal and say I'm a victim of a modern-day sailing Machiavelli - in over my head... that about get it? meh.

This is precisely what I'm talking about - you can't believe it happened the way I described so there must be some conspiracy. Sorry bud. Simple case of some good ol' fashioned prejudice in a couple of key places. I am working toward an understanding of the problem so that I may defeat it. Defeating it may mean walking around the mountain rather than over it.