Mark,

You really need to stop making blanket statements and proclaiming them as "facts."

There ARE Hobie fleets running learn-to-sail events. Non-Hobie fleets too.

There ARE learn-to-sail opportunities at community sailing centers, and lots of them are not only advertising, they are extremely successful to the point that they have to run lotteries for some of the youth programs.

Is it a perfect world? No, but it's not as bad as you think.

Mike