This is due to a vicious circle: no adult cat fanciers because there are no kids sailing cats because there is no cat class for kids because there are not enough cat fanciers...
Support a cat for kids!

Umm. . . I think this started with surfer types. Older adolescents and young adults. I'm all for including kids, but I really think they need to show some initiative. No one has to coax them to skate board or do the other things that are all the rage.

For myself, I'll be pushing my class association and Alter Cup. If kids want to join in, that's fantastic.

They have to be able to get on a skateboard to try it. In Aus we have a certain brand 16 which we never see in this town for state and national youth sailing. Us parents are welcome to buy this 16 for the kids and to go their regattas as long as we don't sail our other brands with them.
F16 could work in the Olympics if you had a different manufacturer for each games, drawn out of the hat to see what order and then there would be a supply of second hand ones coming through. That would be formula and smod. I would buy into that sort of arrangement.