Thank you Bob

I will eat my words asserting their decision was laughable. (would have been much easier to throw more rocks... IMO they have had a track record of failure)

I completly agree with you that the fundamental diagreement is philosophical.

So... US Sailing Olympic is essentially that final push.
This makes the decsion to reduce the size of the US SAiling team make sense.

The bottom line is... IF we as the cat racing community believe that it is important to have Olympic status and success for our type of sailing .. we will have to build the program some how.. some where.

We, the cat sailors need to boot strap a development program through our sailing clubs.

Sailors coming out of top college programs will be on their own when they jump into racing cats until they get to the elite level.

We need an immediate solution to train a few elite up and coming young sailors and hope they find funding to keep at it when they time out of any program we come up with.

Wow...

We have so much else to do... Is an Olympic slot that important to our long term health as fleets to warrant the effort?