No ulcer (yet)... Art's been at this forever and hasn't completely cracked the nut either, although he's way ahead of us (he has put fleets of boats together).
Well, like I said, if the carrot is a college scholarship, that MIGHT help, but it's like anything else. If we show up with a bunch of boats, we're basically stealing away talent, not adding numbers to the game. One could argue that this is what got non-Hobies in trouble at Hobie regattas... <img src="http://www.catsailor.com/forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif" alt="" />
We really need to start kids on cats, not pull mono sailors away. That's a sure way to make sure we don't get invited.
In reference to your other points, if we are going to have a "program" that is taken seriously to support the Olympic multihull (the whole point of this thread, right?), then cats HAVE to be in the JO program.
Up here, there are quite a few kid-only regattas. There are tons of parent and coach boats to keep the adults busy. When youth and adult events are mixed, it's somewhat chaotic, and I don't think the kids benefit.
And, our JO regatta was 72 hours of kid control... <img src="http://www.catsailor.com/forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />
