Karl,

I was referring to the front page - the Ed and Clean...JC has had a lot of positive influence over there too. As far as the forums go, well...yeah.

As far as the positive effect goes, it's simply exposure. High level exposure to all will be had by the media and ice machine (as opposed to water cooler) conversations at the sailing clubs around the US. These things do make a difference and the perception is changing in those that have open minds about this kind of thing. Multihull sailors, usually considered by crusty "yachties" as a fringe group of non-technical speed freaks all of a sudden have the show in the highest of all the technical competitions where the unveiling of the technology rivals the attention of actual racing action. Even the last AC, though it was a blow out, changed a lot of mindsets toward multihulls. What's being realized is that there is just as much design consideration going into the design and sailing a properly performing multihull as any monohull. Now that the monohull mainstream has been drug kicking and screaming into this multihull America's Cup, this mis-perception of multihulls will change and will take our sport to the next level. It doesn't take much exposure to achieve this.