This is great news for the world of catsailing!

--Allows cat sailors to better integrate into the world of sailing at large instead of being pigeon holed just as "Hobie guys," as though we aren't really sailors first (cat sailors second, and Hobie/Inter/Prindle/ARC/etc sailors third)

--Allows Hobie to spend its money where it wants to and not subsidize or worry so much about their competitors making better boats

--Will ultimately strengthen US Sailing and NAMSA; HCA could be allowed to run their events with NAMSA ones

--Will free up local cat fleets that have been "Hobie Fleets" in name only from the charade and from unecessary oversight from an organization that may not represent their local interests

--Will help foster formula racing, the approach used in most other forms of racing (eg F1, Nascar, Kart, AMA Supercross) yet can preserve "pure" one design classes that are big enough (eg H16); a car race between Porsches only is alway going to be smaller than a race between several marques of sports cars with similar performance...and Porsches wouldn't be what they are if they didn't have Ferrarri, Audi, BMW, etc pushing them

Good luck to all of you who put in countless thankless hours on the administrative side of the sport we all enjoy!