It appears to me...

Have you seen Jan de Boer's NACRA video online, the one made in Mauritius? There's a good start.

Marketing to kids: well, good luck. For the same price, used or new, rug rats can get on something way faster that's way easier to operate. Ergo the 'jet ski.'

If, that is, you can get the curtain climbers to get out from in front of the video game or the television.


You'd have much better luck getting monohullers to be interested, and marketing directly to yacht clubs with fast fun video and visuals (refer Jan de Boer Catamarans' video above) would likely be a good tack to take. Of course... a lot of those people like the onedesign thing, which at this point multihull'ers don't have to offer.

I don't know about elsewhere, but in my personal experience, I'm seeing adults (25+) either return to sailing cats or get interested in them for the first time, buying used cats and sailing more for fun than serious racing. New people's new people to the sport, regardless of age... and older new people don't have the disposable income to purchase the latest thing, and they care less for onedesign racing (INITIALLY!) than the best boat fitting their various needs...

But then, I seem to be the only one who has made the above observation, judging from Internet chat...

sea ya
tami