Mary,

I know and I understand, but I refer to my private mail to you. We as a class are organised along a different framework. We use a cel structure. In this view it is not entirely logical to start a North American Class Association along conventional lines. It can be done, there is nothing that forbid or prevents it, but there is not really a need to do so. We don't ask for membership fees and we don't have appointed or elected officials apart from the local class heads. Anybody who invests the time and energy to grow and support the class can become what ever he or she wants; from grass root volunteer to full size official. Ones efforts and investments in time and completed volunteer work will determines ones role and influence. This is much better than appointing or electing people and hope that they will work out well.

So we are a "just do it" class.

We are a little different internally even though from a distance we do appear the same as any other more conventionally structured class.

Does it matter if we are structured differently when the end result to the sailors is the same ? Considering we don't ask for membership fees and have no need for these seems to suggest we've done something smart.

Wouter