Mary, The best thing that you and Rick and everyone else with an interest is keep the topic on the board hot, urge fellow sailors to lobby the IOC to keep the pressure on the ISAF. It is pretty clear that the ISAF are not going to consider the MH community voice significant. I hope that with some effective lobbying on our part, the IOC can see through this and re-state their prior expectations for Olympic yachting to be exciting. Lest the ISAF EC look incredibly foolish before the IOC, they can be expected to take a strategy of burying their lousy Estoril decision in a procedural technicality (definition of 'urgent-honestly!). By keeping the topic hot on your boards here at catsailor.com, and by all of us lobbying the IOC executive board (Note to all!! Be Polite to the IOC!!) the pressure will remain on the ISAF MNA's and EC members to address the issue in an appropriate forum rather than allow a dismissal through a deceptive expedient(the rather incredible request of defintion of the word 'Urgent') by the ISAF Exec Cmte. The seem to be counting on the 'cure' needed to get them out of the mess will be time ('time will heal the MH communities wounds').

By digging in, ISAF EC have begun to look less like emissaries for the sport of yachting and more like politicians. It is worth letting the IOC know that the ISAF got rid of one of the most exciting boats in the sport of yachting. The ISAF now counts on this issue to die down in the MH community. If that happens, it quietly lets them off the hook for their messy, poorly planned, poorly executed decision process shown in Estoril.
R