If you are trying to get teenagers involved, contact all the ones in your area and let them know that there is NOT, and I repeat, NOT a waiting list to race in the U.S. Sailing Youth Multihull Championship at the end of March in California on the new SL 16's. (It is the qualifier to go to the ISAF World Youth Championships.)

10 brand new boats are being supplied by Performance Catamarans, and they need 20 two-person teams.

As of yesterday they finally got the NOR posted at US Sailing's web site. But you can get more information at www.sl16.org/.
US Sailing does not have the pre-registration thing going yet, but you can contact Dan Delave, Regatta Chairman, at ddelave at aol dot com. First ones to pre-register are in, regardless of qualifications.

This is an awesome opportunity for youth sailors, no matter what they normally sail. It's just a matter of letting them know about it. Who wouldn't want to try to win a U.S. championship and go to the ISAF Worlds, no matter on what kind of boat?

Wish I were 50 years younger. When I was a teenager, opportunity to sail a major youth championship on a multihull was not even on the radar. So some progress has been made.

We have the boats, we have the event, we have the venue, all we have to do is find the kids to sail in it.