>>...I would also suggest that the members of the Hobie Class Association do not have any choice about the fact that their organization is subsidized by and partly controlled by the Hobie Cat Company. Again, this is a matter of needing funds to implement programs and pay for the HCA newsletter.<<

Not sure how that applies to what is going on with NAMSA and Catsailor magazine subscriptions. We don't have anything to do with memberships. That is only done through the class.

We subsidize the class association that we created and ran for over 20 years before letting it go to the membership. It is also quite reasonable that we should have some control over what is demanded of us as the manufacturer, regardless of the amount of money we give the class. But, for us, that is still just one vote on the rules comittee.