Now comes the fun part... What do you think is important for an Olympic boat.
Back in the day, when sailboat racing was more popular in the controlling big nations, the notion was that you wanted a technically demanding and physically challenging boat that would only reward the total sailor. We got the Tornado!
As sailing popularity declined and the Olympic movement made enormous efforts to make each event inclusive of all nations... the powers that be changed their philosophy.... we got the laser. Cheap, simple, used world wide and familiar to every one. Technical, highly refined and technically demanding dinghies were out.
So... for Mixed Multihull. What will the IOC want to see. What will the Olympic Sailors want to see... What will we get from an ISAF trial ( a boat designed by committee).
Popular world wide... Simple to use, familiar to the people of the world. or Technical and tweaky boat that is a real challenge to sail?
Equally important to the rank and file... Will the choice of an Olympic Mixed Mulithull grow racing for the rank and file cat racer, be irrelevant or actually harm an existing class.
If it helps or hurts sailing... How do you think this works?
Thats really a lot to chew on, Im gunna be really brave now and just throw this out there, lets copy the sucess of the laser but in a cat, how about the hobie wave, this will really open the market up not just to the adults but to the younger teens as well, it can be sailed 2 up with spin kit, cheap to buy and run, easy to transport, and way faster than the laser, heck most of the laser sailers will probably want to jump ship as well, is sold worldwide, easy to learn, would be a great match racer, I really dont think they will want high tech, i think they want it to look like a coke a cola add where every one in the add is having a great time, lasers arent cutting edge but are sumwhat simular to the wave, simple and fun. Is a class where father and daughter could win gold.
