I understand what the ITA is trying to do.. Place itself at the fore-front of cat sailing. Making its case for the T as the cat sailing world's olympic representative. So I'm not going to knock them in their efforts.

Personally I agree costs stated by the ITA and reasoning behind the dropping of the T are furfies. But this isn't a game of reality its a game of perception. At least they are trying to get cats back in.

Also, I don't believe there is anything new in the past 2 decades that have been introduced into cat/skiff building.. Nomex/carbon was state of the art back in 1985 and still is today. Sure they could go to boron/carbon but the benefit comes at a cost. Not in money but in brittleness.. To be honest the T isn't the lightest boat around so why bother? Nomex/carbon is a total waste in the steamroller weight classes. But that is only my opinion *smiles* Hell even the A class can be built down to weight without going to nomex/carbon..


Just thought it was cool to see the ITA acknowledge our little class!!