Please remember that US Sailing also provides smaller clubs and community sailing organizations with the ability to insure events and club activities. Without which events will never get the necessary permits to run. Without these nationally recognized certifications insurers would undoubtedly decline coverage or hit you with serious increases or some sort of unreasonable hurdles. The training applies to multihulls as well as monohulls. I think maybe the question ,as pointed out earlier, concerns the powers the be not the powers that could or should be. I know that I am going to pay, participate, and recussitate a Wave or Bravo or whatever it is that is covered with weeds at our little club and put some interested kids on that for an afternoon. We all know that the fun factor will build our fleets from the most important resource we have which is the green opti fleets and whatever else your youngin's scoot about in. Inclusion of youth is essential even if the go to school and race 420's or lasers or colgate 26's if they have a chance to experience cats they won't forget it. Especially on the days when the cats are put away when they are just starting to arrive back at the beach/dock/marina whatever.