The Star is a doublehanded keelboat.

Why would you be shoked?

Asking for one equipment of each boat type makes perfect sense to me: the five equipments could be:

1 - Foiler or Kite
2 - Windsurfer
3 - Dinghy
4 - Multihull
5 - Keelboat or Foiler.

Among the ten most numerous classes in the world there is a doublehanded multihull (Hobie 16) and a singlehanded multihull (Hobie 14). A singlehanded and a doublehanded multihull class in the Olympics are at least as logical as two singlehanded and one doublehanded dinghy, as it will be in 2012.

This is the type of position I am suggesting for the start of the 2016 work, the point where negotiations begin. I agree that asking for two multihull classes for both genders is a lot - but why should multihulls ask for less than dinghies?

In order to achieve an acceptable outcome, it is necessary to begin asking for everything we can reasonably justify. If dinghies ask for both a singlehanded and a doublehanded event in both genders, we should do the same. Lets force the discussion of the reasons why dinghies deserve more participation then other boat types.