The Multihull Council spent a good deal of time this morning debating this issue in the US Sailing House of Delegates, where the Multihull Council is represented, and later to the Board of Directors. (We also spent hours talking with US Olympic Sailing Committee members during the weekend but more on that later.)

The Board of Directors is ultimately responsible for making all submissions to ISAF.

The House of Delegates is a constituent based body that basically makes recommendations to the Board.

Our Action Request to the Board was asking them to charge our ISAF delegation to support a Multihull at the 2012 Olympic Games. We had hoped that it would get passed to the Board with a recommendation from the House of Delegates. We did not have enough support in the House to get this favorable recommendation but it was close enough to take a real counting of the votes and we were able to spend a good deal of time making our points during debate.

During the Board of Directors meeting we brought up the same Action Request. The Board opened debate on the topic and we spent a good deal of time in debate again. I think we made our points well but the motion did not pass in the Board and so nothing has changed.

During debate the Board expressed very clearly and in no uncertain terms that they were voting for the disciplines in which they thought the US had the best medal chances in 2012. The Board expressed that US Sailing does and will continue to support both Multihull sailing and Board sailing but that this submission to ISAF would not change.

There are more detail but that is the basics of the story.
More later.