Now comes the fun part... What do you think is important for an Olympic boat.
Back in the day, when sailboat racing was more popular in the controlling big nations, the notion was that you wanted a technically demanding and physically challenging boat that would only reward the total sailor. We got the Tornado!
As sailing popularity declined and the Olympic movement made enormous efforts to make each event inclusive of all nations... the powers that be changed their philosophy.... we got the laser. Cheap, simple, used world wide and familiar to every one. Technical, highly refined and technically demanding dinghies were out.
So... for Mixed Multihull. What will the IOC want to see. What will the Olympic Sailors want to see... What will we get from an ISAF trial ( a boat designed by committee).
Popular world wide... Simple to use, familiar to the people of the world. or Technical and tweaky boat that is a real challenge to sail?
Equally important to the rank and file... Will the choice of an Olympic Mixed Mulithull grow racing for the rank and file cat racer, be irrelevant or actually harm an existing class.
If it helps or hurts sailing... How do you think this works?
