Mary,

US Sailing have already started something similar (found the link on Sailinganarchy):
https://live.datstat.com/RDR-Collector/Survey.ashx?Name=sailing10

It's not as userfriendly and well tought out as the "climbing" report, but usable.

I think that as long as the anonymous version of the reports are available for reading for everybody, beachcat sailors will submit what they experience or witness. It is pretty interesting reading..
Marketing of the initative would have to be done via class associations, forums like this and magazines.

It's just an idea, and something that has worked well within the climbing community over here. Not something I have tought much about or felt missing within catsailing.


Now, Darryl and Howard. One of the points behind this is to make the full reports sans names available on the web. Sailors can then read and interpret the results for them selves. As the reports are pretty standard, you quickly see the pattern behind what kind of accidents/close calls happen.
I think the US Sailing initative will not be very successful, unless the reports submitted are made available on the web somewhere (I did not see any link to results).