I get your point about the ideal world.
I agree with Mike as well i
t's about pushing the teams & equipement to the max.
I agree with both of you on what the ideal world would use. Unfortunately this is just magical or wishful thinking...
The Laser, 470 and Formula boards are NOT specialized fantastic sailing machines... the Star??? Anything extraordinarily about the Elliot??? these are not pushing the equipment to the max!
Wonderful boats and Olympics are not synonymous...
Fact of life... they toss boats like the Tornado and Europe for POS like the Laser and Nothing.
I don't understand Stars... but this is an Olympic Class like the Laser that actually has a race series that I see on the water in my world.
They have thrown out great boats for popular ones before...
How can you go wrong with the public by picking popular?
The IOC is demanding participation world wide.. ... I bet the multihull class being mixed is ISAF's solution to this problem as well.
