This might be of interest - I found a site that is conducting a poll on opinions about Olympic sailing classes.

Sailing 1st Poll

(You have to take a quiz on knowledge of Olympic Sailing before you get to vote - I bombed badly!) The Tornado is currently running about the same as the Mistral and 49er, but well behind the Laser, 470 and Europe dinghy.

There is also a write-in option. The A class has marginal support, although in any event I know the Aust. class association has previously ruled out supporting Olympic status on the grounds that it would damage the broad popularity of the class. It attributes its current strong popularity to it being a development class, and believes Olympic status would curtail this.

I'm curious to know whether people think there are any other cats that should be in the Olympics. Despite the undoubted quality of the Tornado, does its current cost relative to other classes warrant a different option?

Mark.