The most important thing about sailing at the Olympics is that we get a multihull in it. Any bloody multihull - just get it there, then the NMAs will get the OK to spend funding on our sport at our level.

After all. How great is the actual Olympic race? If we heard that the Hobie 16 world champs was duked out by a dozen boats in some backwater because it was tagged onto some big conference or other, we would say that the class had died!


That said, Weymouth and Portland is one of my favourite places to sail