Somebody wrote to me the other day and said that what ISAF does as far as the youth boat is really irrelevant, because most countries and clubs and sailing centers and fleets and Boy Scout organizations will probably keep on doing what they have been doing for years.

ISAF's decision (if they make it final in November) may promote a new trend, but it will be a very long time before it can be implemented in most parts of the world.

And for all we know, a few years down the road the trend may be toward a youth boat that is a smaller version of the A-Class Cats, with no spinnaker at all. Lasers don't have spinnakers and that class seems to do very well in numbers and popularity, with both youth and adults. The Laser 2, with spinnaker, never really caught on, despite VERY attractive fleet prices to clubs.