Hi, I thought I would get my 2 cents in as well (since everyone else has:-). I bought a used Tornado 2 summers ago for $6000 Canadian, pretty close to $4000 US. I'm 35 yrs old and have sailed all my life. I'm reminded to be thankfull for Granpa's foresight in buying the beach lot all those years ago when reading about people's difficulties in accessing H2O.
<br>To get to one of the points, I was EXTREMELY disappointed in the complete lack of sailing coverage on Canadian and U.S. tv during the Sydney olympics. If I'm not mistaken, there wasn't any. It was so bad here that neither of the two major Edmonton newspapers listed sailing results. I don't know if there is any way to influence tv coverage, but with all of the 24 hour sports networks out there, there has to be some way to raise the profile of the sport. Perhaps a mass email before a major event would have some impact? There seems to be lots going on in the world of sailing, but you would never know it by what gets covered in the media in this neck of the woods (could have something to do with the 10 months of winter I guess). I don't think the sport can grow if no one is aware of its existance.
<br>Anyway, its back to work for me. Let me know if I'm out to lunch as far as watchiing sailing on tv, I don't get ESPN on Satelite. <br><br>