Well after our discussion last week about Gary Jobson being the Pres. of US Sailing, I called his office and left a message of congratulations, and my ph. number.

He just now called me back and we had a good conversation about what he wants to do with US Sailing.

I mentioned my "grass roots" approach and I also menioned Mark Schnider's "Only for racing" approach to how to spend dues money. Mark, he wants you to call him. Seriously, he said it several times. So here's his number.

http://www.jobsonsailing.com/jsi/

The long and short of it is this; he certainly does NOT hate multihulls, he used to own a Hobie cat, he would love to see a Deed of Gift match race on the big Tri's, and he is all for getting a multihull back into the Olympics. So There!

Now, for a guy as busy as he is to take time out of his day to call some schmuck like me, well, I am very glad to hear that is the man we will have leading US Sailing into the future.

JW, Just after I hung up I remembered you said you were going to take him out on the Cap. Sorry but I forgot to mention that to him, I really wanted to encourage him to do that with you, I hope the wind is good.

And Mark, please call him, he is very interested to hear input from all US Sailing members, even cat sailors.