All I know is that the numbers of youth sailors seem to keep increasing at a fairly dramatic rate -- seems like every year a new record is set for the major youth regattas -- in all categories except multihull. That's because there IS no multihull category.
Art's initiative is designed to change that and get multihulls involved in the mainstream of the youth sailing boom that is currently going on.
Pssst, the numbers keep increasing because there is exactly the same number of youth ages 7 to 24 as the baby boomer generation, 77 million.
The teens and 20's of this century could be just like the 70's and 80's of the last.
