Interesting thing: I was just at the website for the ISAF 2003 World Sailing Championships for the Olympic classes (www.cadizworlds2003.com). The site is all in Spanish, but I know enough Spanish that I noticed they have a polling question very similar to this one. It asks, "Do you believe that the professionalization of sailing is good for the sport?" So far there have been 751 votes, with 55 percent voting yes, 40 percent voting no, and 6 percent that don't know or don't care.