You get the youth into sailing ONE KID AT A TIME.
1. Take the time to let your kid drive the boat.
2. Beg, borrow or steal an entry level cat and let the kids go out on their own.
3. Borrow the neighbors kid for a weekend crew. Let them make mistakes, and swing on the trap wire in between races.
4. Take your cat on the next group camping trip, and let the kids have a go at it. (ok, get a Wave for this one)

Bottom line: Do Something, and don't bitch about the ones that are doing it on a boat that is different from yours.

We went through this in skiing/snowboarding. Jetski's/motorboats, sailing/motorboats, monohulls/multihulls.... There's idiots in every sport. What you drive doesn't necessarily make you one.

I was at the Youth Nationals. And we gave J.C. a good ribbing about the brand of boats. But the bottom line was that Nacra put up the boats, and we saw our kids have a life experience.

Art did not push Nacra, he pushed youth! Nacra pushed Nacra by supporting the youth.

In closing I'll state that I'm very disappointed in some of the negative responses from my community. Instead of taking advantage of this we're focusing on the ford/chevy argument.