Rolf... your perception is that racing is the focus..

I would say... racing is the focus of racing sailors and gets talked about here. If we don't all agree on what the game is, when and where ... there is no race.

Many sailors don't race and have no reason to belong to a community that talks about sailing at all. The vast majority of sailors do there own thing... at what ever level of proficiency they want.... and don't want to share anything about it. We have three new Hobie 16 Getaways at the club in the last two years (which matches up to the 3 new F16's). They do there own thing and don't sail with other boats.