I, Mary Wells, am just transferring this message over to this forum and thread from the Old Forum. He was not able to post on this forum himself.

Posted by Nathan from 64.12.96.134 on March 09, 19103 at 08:10:11:

In Reply to: high performance yes but not HT posted by Stewart on March 09, 19103 at 07:42:12:

I have not been able to post to the new forum, despite getting a user name and password, so I am posting my response to "Sail S" here. Here goes-


Sail-S,

Having been in the Biz for 20 years, I have to disagree with you about the appeal of the smaller, more manuverable HT cats to the TV market. I have viewed clips of these cats racing around the cans and WOW they are exciting! The 18 Skiffs and the 49ers have nothing on these guys. Add some of the World's best cat sailors going after the cup, representing their various countries and you have a media event that is better than you can imagine.

The sporty, darty HTs sailed 20 of the World's best WILL be a lot more entertaining to watch than than two 25 footers sailed by ?????.

Besides, several of the former LAC have been won by default or due to mechanical failure of one of the two fragile C-Class Cats. If one broke, then it would only leave one other to race. Not much fun to watch. The last LAC, won by Steve Clark, ended this way. The Aussie cat flipped and broke a wing, never recovering. They had to use an older heavier wing and were never in the game. BORING! BORING! SNOOZE! NO TV APPEAL!

The Trustees of The Little America's Cup have made a brillant decision. Bravo