I assure you that nobody on the Multihull Committee has any interest in promoting or not promoting a one design class or a modified class. Nor is there any interest or underlying current in making some statement about how the Hobie 16 fits in the world. It's a championship that's sailed on multihulls and that's what they're after. That's all there is to it.

If there are some other political and worldy considerations, it has nothing to do with this championship committee.