What I am saying is that everything that is being said NOW, both for and against, has all happened and been said before. This is a perfect case of “history repeating itself”! All the same ideas, both of “working within the system” and of “breaking away, have been all argued just as strongly before, not over Tornadoes being dropped from the Olympics, but over the same principles of inequality and favouritism within the governing authorities of sailing. The last time this mood prevailed within the multihull community, the route taken was one of a renewed vigour within the system to try to initiate “change” from within. It was considered that within 10 to 20 years from then multihulls would be far better integrated within the general sailing community and they would have a far more equitable input into decision making for sailing and a far better result for multihulls.
I have to say that IT DIDN’T HAPPEN THEN AND IT WON’T HAPPEN NOW!! Nothing will change while multihulls are “controlled” administratively by the YA’s and the ISAF. If there isn’t a clean break from the ISAF we will be having this same “generational” argument again in another 10 or 20 years.
“If history is forgotten then we are condemned to repeat the same mistakes over and over”.