Mark,

I think you're over inflating the role Olympic sailing plays and if you feel I'm a bad sport for saying so , so be it. This bad sport will still be ahead of you on our race course, the one that matters.


"I said, now, I said ,pay attention boy!"

The cure for anything is salt water - sweat, tears, or the sea
Isak Dinesen
If a man is to be obsessed by something.... I suppose a boat is as good as anything... perhaps a bit better than most.
E. B. White