The MHC meeting was notable in that nobody stepped up and argued for separating from US Sailing. So the rank and file who do the organizational work to maintain the current catamaran program in the USA are not up for generating a new organization.
(It is also not true that we are PAYING with dues to just get screwed over here by Brenner, Bodie and US Sailing.)
My personal conclusion was... IF a new international organization for catamarans were to be created... It would be a top down kind of thing.... The elite international sailors will have to be the ones to get it organized, financed and going. If these sailors are able to persuade the sailors of the major classes to organize their international events independently, redirect the current financial sponsors from ISAF and support of the New Multi organization at the international level... Then you have something.
Operationally a new organization would essentially replace ISAF at the international level... At this point, the US sailors will have an option. The US sailors, clubs and volunteers of the MHC would then have to decide to follow the new lead of the International Multi organization or stay in the US Sailing system or find some intermediate. So, Until this happens, the sense of the meeting was to work within the existing system and work to taking leadership positions within US Sailing and ISAF so that key future decisions are not influenced by Brenner and Bodie.
