Marc,
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<br>Let me be real direct here. Anytime you vary any setup for what ever reason it raises questions. Anytime you have identical set ups it does not.
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<br>Yes, I do care about this class. I have been working to make sure that it has something that no other class today has (including hobie). --- Viable corporate sponsorship, IE money.
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<br>If you look at sports as a business anytime that the organizational body has structured itself for corporate interaction it has been successful. Sailing is the only sport that has totally screwed itself in that area. It comes directly down from USSAILING and how it interacts with corporate amercia. DO you know that USSAILING does not even endorse the AMerica's cup campaigns? Most people don't. Yet it is the biggest draw that people have to our sport and has been existance for more than 150 years. Our country's leading organization is the only one that does not back our sport with its "national pride" yet its existance is chartered by Congress to do so. So for all you guys that want to work around USSAILING with another national organization -- sorry you still have to deal with USSAILING.
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<br>Marc, my point here is that I love this sport and that we as sailors need to make a stand to force reality into our sport,
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<br>If we design rules that are really simple (so even a moron can understand them) then we can get corporate sponsorship and show these dumbass monohullers how this sports needs to change. Which in my humble opinion will help revive sailing in general.
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<br>So for me it goes way past just a few pounds on a boat. I'm looking at the bigger picture here.
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<br>I did not take you comments as a personal attack. Please do not take these as such. I do have almost weekly contact with companies that want to do something (because they are headed by sailors and agree with my arguements) to help. All of these companies can move dollars into our sport in excess of what hobie and PC makes a year in gross sales.
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<br>THanks
<br>Steve<br><br>