Jeff

I see that Dean replied to your set of questions.... not much juice in his answer tho!

I doubled down with another set of questions about junior development training.... I agree with you that this is the great unknown.... (along with... Do we have coaches able to get US Sailors to gold.)

I anticipate an answer similar to yours... It's the new guys problem now...

Truth is.... this is a very hard problem in the states.... and worse... it entails a culture change in all of the sailboat racing rank and file to support a development culture.

We will see what Dean and the new guy have to say... But this has been a problem for 20 years and it could remain a problem.

Remember... a hard look at the medals the US has won in multi's was fundamentally because we had a technology edge on the competition.... (Smyth had a new sail design)....Lovell had a cuben fiber edge among some other advantages.

This is a big big hill to climb...
Mark