Jamie, I love you. That means I get the additional $5! I wanted to explain that on the card, but I couldn't figure out how to fit it in without confusing people. And that's why I said not to renew the subscription for more than one year, until I could see how this alliance with NAMSA was going to work out.

Plus, I didn't want people to give the extra $5 to me instead of NAMSA out of sympathy for me.

If you do not want to belong to NAMSA because you don't believe in its agenda or whatever, just say so on your renewal card when you send it in. I will just not forward it to NAMSA for membership -- and I get the $5.

However, it would be good if you would explain on this forum, or on the NAMSA forum, why you don't want to be a member of NAMSA. Dialogue is good.

What Catamaran Sailor is doing for NAMSA is the basically the same thing we offered to the Multihull Council of US Sailing, but the Multihull Council was not interested.

I offered my magazine as a vehicle for newsletters for any and all organizations. Nobody took me up on that.

The stuff that I put into Catamaran Sailor is mostly what is interesting to me personally. If it is interesting to other people, too, that's great. If not, oh well.

I have only one agenda, and that is to keep communication open to all the beach-cat sailors. As far as I am concerned, that was the mission of NAMSA in the distant past, and I am continuing that mission to this day.

As far as the revival of a real NAMSA, I think that it can be of tremendous help to the Multihull Council in implementing many of the ideas and suggestions the Council has but cannot do because it has no money and no authority.