Two points
All of this WE talk.... as in WE should tell ISAF to get lost and WE will negotiate with IOC... is silly.
Fact of life...the providential WE just does not exist in the Catamaran World. Take a look at your existing catamaran associations... It's the same people, year after year. (god bless them) ... Somehow you expect these people to now have the energy to run the sport at the Olympic level?
TeamVMG makes a great point.... If the effort (by ISAF) to get cats back in the Olympics forces the invention of a novel sailing format... (like VMG's short course/slalom)...
Will it be worth it?
The olympics would be a quirky side show that distracts every four years and just sucks up lots of money (IOC $$$ and Sailing supporters $) to fund the sailing industrial complex. Hard to understand how that would be a good thing for the sport.
I continue to think that the multihull council's approach of working with ISAF is wise... I think they will uphold the integrity of our sport in these negotiations /advising. If the IOC just decides that Sailing is not a good fit for the summer games, So be it... We will then have to step up and run the sport at what ever level we can using our own money.
First off, ISAF and integrity don't belong in the same sentence. Second, WE is who we are
. I disagree with the idea that affiliations with organizations which do not support the multihulls are somehow better than no affiliations at all.
Once those ties are broken I do believe that there would be people who would step up to the plate and organize us. We're talking about sailors worldwide after all and not just us lazy pokes in the US.
And if not, then WE deserve what we get. At least it won't be because of some political screwballs who are choosing classes solely based on whose kids are sailing a particular boat.
