I always found it funny to see so many different but basically the same dinghy classes at the Olympics.
If one would have:
A dinghy
A keelboat
A windsurfer
And a multihull
then yes, you would have 4 sufficiently different sailing craft in your olympics. Make it gender specific and you have 8 classes.
Makes sense. One question: what crew for the dinghy and multihull: singlehanded or doublehanded? Having both would mean two more classes and four events.
If choosing strictly by Olympic philosophy (best man/woman wins), singlehanding is mandatory. Also, the equipment should be as popular and simple as possible. My hypothetical list would be:
Kite
Windsurfer
Singlehanded dinghy (with asymetric spi)
Singlehanded multihull (with asymetric spi)
It would not be easy for old minds to accept, but makes perfect Olympic sense.
The rest of us can go to any of the hundreds of venues available everywhere. In this scenario, the World Championships would receive more atention from ISAF and would become more important than the Olympics - as they should be!
