Caleb is absolutely correct here. The enemy is ourselves

How about this idea.

Perhaps we could boot strap a coherent program using the resources of 4 or 5 clubs around the USA.

Forget about the equipment issue. What if we identified a club on each of the three coasts and great lakes. These clubs would run a 3 or 4 day program twice a year where a training camp with coaching occured followed by a junior regatta. Qaulified Junior sailors and teams would get to the club for the training and coaching and use boats provided by the club. (If a junior team had their own boat and could bring it... great.. the program would get bigger.)

This development program would underlie the Hobie 16 Junior Nationals and the SL16 Junior nationals and any other class which could support a junior event.

(I bet if the F18 class made 5 boats available for an F18 Junior nationals... it would be VERY popular!)

The layer above these natinoal events would be US Sailing sanctioned feeder events for the ISAF worlds.

We already have some of the peices... we simply need to give up what holds us back and build and promote the programs locally and regionally.

This is not a LEARN TO SAIL or Introduce catamarans to junior sailors... This should be a serious focus on training to race performance boats.

If a 29ner team wants to commit to a muiltihull for a camp.. Perfect... trust the dark side to win out! We want sailors and their families who will commit time and money to the sport... They will only do this when we get our crap together and build a legit program at all of the levels we need.