John, the problem has always been that we do not have enough individual catamaran sailors joining US Sailing. We have a number of catamaran classes and organizations that belong, but for some reason US Sailing seems to take individual memberships more into consideration than the organizations.

Am I wrong about that? I know it has always been a problem that people who join as individuals do not get counted as being multihull sailors because of the way the membership form is. And not enough people use the Golden Anchor program through the Multihull Council.

But why would that negate the memberships of all the catamaran classes and organizations that belong?