Hi Mary -

While you make a valid point about people joining, what I meant was that we don't have enough people volunteering to govern the sport. We need maybe six or eight people who are interested in volunteering, and we need the member clubs and classes that you mention to start sending reps to meetings. I know it is a tall order - local and regional level volunteers are already spending extravagant amounts of time building their fleet or club or class. Kinda hard to expect them to also go to the meetings of an organization that inspires polls about whether or not to pay dues.

Anyway... like it or not, USSA is the MNA. If we can't get enough enthusiasm to get the current racing classes represented within USSA, it is absurd to imagine that multihull sailors could somehow form a national-level breakaway organization that would take over the function of USSA. So polls like this one lead to... what?

Sorry - feeling a bit bleak tonight. Maybe its the flu.