Mark you hit the nail on the head when you said that yacht clubs weren't adopting any type of multi for their sailing school..That is definitely part of our problem. It is up to US to get in there and influence those decisions.

We have decided to start a multihull cat sailing school from the ground up without being part of a yacht club. We are quite far along with our plans and it will be running for 2007. Our local municipality has given us a long term lease on a prime beach, and the local Rotary club is building new washrooms and showers for us. Classroom will either be a portable or else another room built as part of the washroom facilities. We have donations of 5 boats so far..2 h14s and 3 h16s.. Its amazing what kind of support the local community is giving us. All you have to do is ask.

Format will be the traditional 2 week sessions, with some racing clinics on the weekends. If people want to come from out of town then we can look around to find somewhere to stay.

I think that this kind of initiative is what is required to promote cat sailing. We need a few more of these cat sailing schools to start. There are a couple schools in Quebec and cat sailing is really doing well there.

If you are interested in coming to the school or having your kids come let me know.

And, if you have any h14s or h16s that you would like to donate that would be greatly appreciated. We can even give a charitable tax receipt.