It's just a continuation of the cats v. mono argument. The mono's are the traditional sailing boats, been around for centuries and they see the cats as trying to muscle in on their game. And that wouldn't necessarily be a problem except that cats being so fast, they make most mono's look stupid. You can understand why they don't like that very much. Think about it, you own a megga million dollar ocean racer and a cruising cat will outrun it. Well maybe that's a bit rich but you get my meaning.

They have really done us a favour. No longer do we have to adhere to their rules, pay their fees or support them in any way, and why should we?.
We can now form the ICRA and the ACRA and the NSWCRA etc., and run our own events, get our own sponsorship, promote cat racing exclusively worldwide. All funds now will go to the improvement of cat racing world wide, all of it. We can run our own worlds, nationals, states without ISAF/YA/YNSW etc. sanctions. All fees, will be payable to our organising bodies.
We should have been doing this all along. Relying on the mono fraternity to promote us is like asking the cops to support bank robbers or bicycle riders to promote GP bikes. It's a joke right?
Now we have to stand up and take responsibility for ourselves and its time we did, way overdue in fact.

Berny