Ehh no, I won't say that.

I will say however that it would have satisfied ME !

There you have one counter example already.

As some other poster noted earlier. It is not about convincing 299 million people in the USA who rather be on motorboats like Mary. It is about reaching those 100.000 persons out there that are ready to be convinced. And even if 80.000 of those prefer to sail 3500 USD a pop optimist bathtubes then that still leaves us 20.000 potential F12 sailors.

This is a time to say "Can Do !"

Wouter