From the "Scuttlebutt" sailing e-newsletter:
* From Peter Huston: (edited to the 250-word limit) Having been involved with USYRU/US Sailing for a decade, and sitting on a variety of committees, I became highly disenchanted with the organization when it shifted focus
away from yacht racing to becoming the waterfront nanny organization it is today. While being an increasingly vocal critic of US Sailing, I reasoned that I needed to take away the potential for the organization to be critical
of me for complaining without being a member. So, I rejoined yesterday, which was an interesting process in and of itself given the way their website is set up.
But you know what I found utterly ironic? We all know that one way or another US Sailing led the way for the elimination of the multihull from the Olympics. Olympic Sailing Committee Chairman Dean Brenner even bragged about
his rationale for wanting to get rid of mulithull's, saying we don't have any clear medal talent in the class. But when I finally figured out the process to rejoin, you know what sort of grayscale image appears on the
"membership card" in the "store - a picture of a mutilhull. Go figure, multihulls were a good enough image to help promote the sport on the US Sailing membership card, but multihulls aren't good enough for US Sailing to
support as part of the Olympics. Here's the link to that image....
http://abe5.com/4fr And to think that the notion of mandatory membership led to me becoming a member again. Perhaps President Capron should have been careful what he wished for!
