Why is that a bonus?... It simply proves the point that we have NO YOUTH PROGRAM.... the rest of the parents buy their kid a boat, take them to a racing program around the country, take them to the regional and national championships and the pipeline of programs delivers them to an ISAF qualifier championship.

Hell... these cat sailor kids probably race and OWN one of these other boats... they just look at the ISAF qualifier on the SL cat as a hell of a lot easier path then trying to get to the ISAF championships on their laser.

Now we need a championship and thanks to hobie and performance for steping up and providing boats in the past.

But the fact of the matter is... We have not built a multihull sailing program for our kids.

Our version of a junior sailing is mostly sailing WITH our kids as crew for us. We don't send the little tykes off in their own boats like the rest of the world.

This only becomes a problem when you need teams to compete in ISAF Youth championships.

(an interesting poll would be how many cat racer/sailors have their kids in a monohull dinghy program and plan to buy the boats they need to progress through the program.)