Art has busted his tail and dedicated countless hours, days, weeks, and months putting together the US Sailing youth program that we have today and he has a lot of clear and strong positives to his credit.
No argument there - I whole-heartedly agree.
Art also wrote (in response to Dermot, way back up the thread):
This translates to getting kids sailing in Multihulls, all kinds of Multihulls and becoming the sailors we know they can be. That in a nutshell is our job.
(again, emphasis added)
Then why does his site only promote the SL16?
I'm not slapping Art down - I'm insisting that he live up to his own words.
I don't care whether he has Hobie, F-16, Mystere 4.3 or that weird inflatable "Skippy" thing on his website, but to exclusively promote one brand of catamaran for youths smells an awful lot like a sales pitch in the guise of a non-profit program.
**I** was not the one that brought up the brand name mudslinging into this thread. You can thank Mr. Pecorak for initiating that.
