So Bob..

Are you REALLY saying that competition trumps years of experience sailing high performance boats!!!

Randy Smyth and Robbie Daniels were succesful coming through the cat sailing ranks and did not seem to miss all of that tactical training in college.

Fact is... it took Johnny and Charlie 12 years of training on a high performance boat to get to the top.

Lots of US All American types have tried and failed to jump into world class status in a high performance boat despite those years of competition in slow dinghys.

Moreover, It doesn't seem that the rest of the world is following the US lead of trying to compete by starting the sailors off at the age of 22 on the high performance skiffs and tornados after a rigorous 15 years in slow dinghy's.

I can't believe that this is a winning strategy.

Have I misunderstood you.

Mark