Alex,

My kids are very jealous of you. I think the biggest reason more youth do not sail in the US is access. There is basically none unless you belong to one of the very few yacht clubs and then most of them are very anti-multihull.

We have a Wave for the kids and they would use it, but that then requires dad to hook it up to the car and drive to the site for them to play. They go sailing when we go and like it. If we lived where a boat could be set up and they could get there themselves, I have no doubt that they would use it.

Right now I am lucky if I get to sail more than 1 time a month and that is only because of scheduled events. Time and logistics are definitely not in favor of a sailing lifestyle for me at this point in my life. It does not matter how little you pay for a boat, if you do not use it, you paid too much.

Matt