Hi Dan

Great job helping with the CISA multihull event. IMO, the world class coaching available will be the hook which starts the USA down the high performance path and it along with the Hobie program is the start of something we should all get behind and support as our national program.

BTW, How many kids are racing 29ners on the west coast? The boat is just not happening on the bay. The Chesapeake Bay yacht club which tried to start the class managed 3 boats and then it seems to have folded. The 29ners did a hell of a job on their web site for the worlds this past year... It was an exciting web page and certain to get kids juices flowing. We cat sailing classes need something like it to appeal to the kid market.

What other high performance or even 2 man boat are the kids on out there? We don't see many kids on 420's on the Chesapeake Bay either.... usually its just Lasers.

One thing we have noticed is that while we participate in several annual yacht club events... most of the classes are filled with old farts like ourselves. We really don't see many of the teens on these weekends to even try to seduce onto a high performance boat. (Opti and Penguin sailors are not really the target audience for F18's or even H16's.)

We definitely need to generate an outreach program at two of our newer yacht club regattas where we do see a few more teen's on the water!

Take Care
Mark