The one thing I was sick of hearing at the meeting was a lot of sailors turning to Phil Jones as asking how can the YA help us with a youth development program and how can we get funding for it.

We have a lot of smart cat sailors around and there is no reason why with a little effort, they can not get a well funded program off the ground themself at their clubs. Why would the YA want to help us if we do not want to help ourselves. If we made an effort, showed them we were very serious, then and only then should they even consider assisting us.

To tell you the truth, I was very embarrassed by some of the comments coming from some top sailors there. Many of these sailors will put their 2 cents worth in, but when it comes to crunch time, it would be up to the avaerage club sailor to put in the hard yards to get it off the ground and continuly support it whilst the 'good' sailors are off sailing for themselves, looking back at the club guys as second rate sailors.