I have to say that given my years of involvement in sailboat racing, management, development and promotion in Australia, I'm not in any way surprised by the current ISAF outcomes. It's been my experience that the main focus of ISAF, YA, YNSW seems always to be, and always has been, on offshore, bigboat racing, [where the big money is], with little if any interest in OTB club level racing [where there's not much money]. The exception being the introduction of measures to ensure the maximising of revenue input from these small sailing clubs. I've never seen, or been able to encourage any interest or input from YA/YNSW in small boat racing club activity. I've seen many, many small sailing clubs go to the wall without the slightest interest or concern from YNSW or YA and if it happens to be a cat club there is considerably less than no interest. As I see it, it's an absolute scandal and for the life of me I can't see any reason whatsoever for continuing my YA. support funding. As a member, you are offered all these bogus entitlements which amount to 3/5ths of 5/8ths of nothing at all useful for the average w/end small boatclub jock and in reality, you don't even get an acknolegement of you having paid your fees. What a joke. And to add insult to injury, we no longer have guaranteed participation at the Olympics. To be treated with such utter contempt is outrageous.
I'd be happy to be proved ill-advised on this but both my head and my heart tell me otherwise.
