As have been said many times before, the kind of resources and money olympians would bring into the F18 class would probably be detremential for the class. Do they/you really want such a change? In my opinion it would be far better for the F18 class to let the Tornado stay the olympic catamaran. That was probably why the F18 class was represented and worked with the Tornado class in Estoril when the events was selected.
I keep hearing this argument but I disagree - most of those Olympians are ALREADY sailing in F18 and are getting paid to do so by the factories and/or major sponsors. Perhaps having an Olympic twist added would apply a few more resources to the sail development and the like but I really don't see how that would have some huge impact on the class.
However, losing control of or making wide sweeping changes in the rules would be detrimental but I'm not sure that's what we're talking about here.
