I'd really be quite curious to see whether some of you would donate to the NAYMA org (aka SL16 class) if it was the boat for the forseeable future and it wasn't doing a square dance with the omnipresent H16 from year to year.
Basically, the way I see it is that you're saying "Screw the kids (when they're not sailing hobies)" in an effort to promote your own self-serving class agenda.
Who knows, next year Art could completely revamp the site into one big H16 billboard to reflect the boat for 2009. Would that change your mind?
The brand of boat is not as important as the support that is generated for the program by the local volunteers and sailors
Then what does it matter that this new org is pushing the SL16 when its about the kids and not about the boat?
If you are going to hold yourself out as the "North American Youth Multihull Association", you need to encompass all catamaran youth programs, and not blatently promote a single class.
Says who? As I see it, the organization can promote any class he/she/it wants. As long as its supporting youths sailing on something with more than one hull in North America, I think its fufilling its named role. You don't have to give it money though - but I thought it was about the kids, not the boat?
