Through my sailing club I am also a member of our MNA. If I want to, I can get the budget and the accounts for our MNA. I can get them either by contacting the MNA administration directly or through our club or our regional authority.

Personally I dont think you should expect to recieve much directly from a MNA. I would expect representation and assistance if we ran into trouble with access to areas, political trouble (like your DHS) and at most access to good insurance. I would expect the same opportunities as other classes, if we made the same comittment. It is expensive to have representation..

I think having a discussion over the value of joining US Sailing will not be very productive unless you know where the money are going. Perhaps you can get access to their budget and post a small summary of where the money are being used. A good topic for "Catamaran sailor" perhaps?

To me it sounds like much of the trouble you have in the US is becouse the catamarans sailors usually are not members of sailing clubs. If you have "flag officers" and the like, I can understand why as it sounds very much like "stiff upper lip" clubs. But staying unorganized sounds like a loosing proposition over time, with beaches closing and more and more laws becoming troublesome. Representation and organization have great value when you need it.

If multihull sailors accounted for 20% of US Sailings members, it would be very hard for them to not listen to multihull sailors. John Williams would be wielding some real power in that case.