I understand committees play useful roles in society, necessary roles even and I understand that politics is part of every project. Just not in the initial stages.

Committees and politics are never kind to emerging projects and new concepts. It is wrong to expect any good from them in these early stages.





Or who has waste too much time and effort in the instances when he did !

The origins of the given stance can go both ways.

I participated in the Texel committee but Texel changed after I split off and did NMBR.

Of course the effected changes had been in processing for many many many years before NMBR and I was certainly not the first one to propose them. Ohhh no ! It was just a coincidence that they were (finally) implemented after NMBR did.

Either way, the in-house committee work got nowhere where the "split off" project gained succes within months. Go figure.


In house committee got assurances of support for no less then two catamarans in the Olympics. When it was time to lay the cards on the table they all turned up Monohull.

I wonder why I'm sceptical about committees.

Wouter