That's really strange, since I used to race against Gary - in Hobie 16's. He owned a lime green one. Did you hear that directly from him?

I'll join US Sailing again when I can vote JW onto the Board.

To put this in Sun Tzu terms, if you cannnot understand the people that made the decision, you will never be able to effect a change and your cause will not prevail.

I can't believe it but I totally agree with Wouter <g>!


Didn't Sun Tzu also write somewhere to never fight your battles by following the enemies playbook.

And maybe some understand "the people that made the decision" far to well. Multihulls aren't "it" and never will be in their eyes.

Without an independent multihull powerbase they can afford to ignore us and play us at will. Change is only affected when one party has the ability to put the hurt on to another.

Infiltration sounds nice but I feel the Multihull Council is actually their tool to co-opt and control us. Afterall, infiltration works both ways. In colonial times, the powers would award some minor privilegdes to local chiefs as to have them eventually work against their own kind and interests. It was always done to advance the interests of the colonizer and never to allow the subjected any meaningful input.

So the question at time may well be about who is benefitting most from this relationship. Us or them ?

Lets face it guys, Mono's could only have lost 1 event out of 7, while the cats lost the only event they had. With the US votes the cat would have stayed in. Apparently, cats were not valuable enough to even consider dropping 17% of the mono scene.

They felt that bringing in the Keel boat was so important that they weren't willing to sacrifice a single mono class ! Dropping a multihull is a different matter of course, who cares about those. Ohh the natives might go restless, well, we'll drop some more glass Alter Cup beeds in some poor sob hands and he'll argue the mono's case for us. Hell, put some more firewater in his X-mas package to be sure.

This is not in any way personally directed to you John. You mean well and are a hero to the sport of catamaran sailing. But if I were a Machiavellian Monohull Prince then I too would play the game as described above. I've seen it happen before.

Wouter

And another thing.

"Amateurs" like Rocklegde Engineering are now producing better quality video reports of catamaran racing then the professionals. Surely we can expand this and usage of the internet to televise our sport !

Wouter