The HCA-NA people have been talking ALOT about helmets, with us basically ending up with just making strong suggestions at youth teams wearing them (without a hard fast rule)and we (like the skiing peeps out there) are seeing more and more helmets in use. I would guess there were 10 sailors in Galveston with helmets on (and another 80 that wish they had them on their heads during friday's big blow)
Greg Thomas from Hobie Cat spoke on this subject at the AGM we had and are going to make an effort to have a stronger marketing effort on the helmets that they carry and hopefully that will move us forward into general acceptance of helmets on the multihulls.