My main point is that the ISAF should look after only what they are entitled to.
Sure they can "quoin" the term of "world's", when and as it is pertinent to themselves, BUT only as far as it is applicable to events that they control/administer/organise etc, NOT turn around and say that no other person/class/club/body can organise a sailing event of full international participation and call it "worlds" (or words to that effect) and have sailors who compete in those "worlds" ineligible to ever compete in an ISAF sanctioned event. To me their attitude should be that their (ISAF) "worlds" are an officially sanctioned sailing "worlds" by the ISAF rules regulations etc, and any others are simply non sanctioned by them (ISAF). It’s this punitive punishment that the ISAF threaten to administer on sailors who participate in any "non sanctioned" by the ISAF event that sticks in my throat. To me it has nothing to do with quality of sailing or the better and more efficient administration of sailing, to me it appears as a pure "money grab" by the ISAF for their own benefit without any of that benefit ever filtering back to the actual sailors. When you read the constitution of the ISAF it is rather frightening, they want, no, they DEMAND, everything and they want the sailor to pay through the nose for it. Any class conducting an event "sanctioned by the ISAF" has to (among other things) even pass up their control of the financial rights of any filming, video or TV contracts of THEIR event to the ISAF. Sounds to me like the only real principal here is “who holds the purse”
If you don’t play football by my rules (those being I always win) then I will take MY ball and MY goal posts home and no one plays.