You are kidding, right? First, use your real username rather than a newly-created alt. Second, this has nothing to do with a bias for or against the Hobie 16. Efforts (on either side) to make it so are counterproductive.

Facts: ISAF wants a spin-rigged youth boat. Hobie 16 class does not want to become a spin-rigged boat. Hobie youth sailing is in NO DANGER of becoming extinct or threatened - HCA will keep doing what they are doing, and fair winds.

pot-stirrer... <img src="http://www.catsailor.com/forums/images/graemlins/mad.gif" alt="" />

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