ISAF Event Selection

I think now the final decision has been reached its time to stop debating/complaining now before the achievements of the people who's disciplines were chosen, are tarnished with grudges held by those who unfortunatly were not given a chance to compete.

I am not saying its easy to swallow, having your event thrown out, I am completly impartial here, but as the ISAF President said himself - no event is in or out the Olympic Games forever. If you want something really bad, you can find another way of achieving it - thats probably what the women skiff sailors will do - they'll sail a radial, a 470 or a match racing boat. There is a 60:40 split between men's and women's now.

Controversial comments I know, however, we now have to look forward to potentially the best regatta ever sailed on British waters. It will be historic.

Well, if you hold to the school of thought that says close boat to boat tactics, multiple overlaps at mark roundings, what gets called tactical racing is as exciting as raw speed then you probably would think keelboats are more exciting than multihulls.

And face it, boats aren't fast in real terms. The wheelchair marathon record is about 15knots. There aren't many sailboats that could equal that round a normal course in most conditions. You say to a motor sport enthusiast that a Cat is more exciting that a leadmine because it does 20mph instead of 10mph and he'll say "big b***** deal..."

Originally posted by Jon Emmett The equipment committee voted for the removal of keelboats.

And I say that probably would have led to the loss of sailing in the Paralympics in the long term, and also disenfranchised even more people than losing the multihull. Therefore it was not obviously a better alternative. You might not agree with the relative merit I put on the two, but surely you at least recognise the argument has legs.
18 months ago, BTW, I would have agreed with you and said why on earth have we got old slow boats for old slow sailors in the games. If you do a really thorough google session you can probably find forum posts where I say as much...

Edited by JimC

The equipment committee voted for the removal of keelboats.

Jim without going over old ground thats bullsh*te. You know it,i know it, looks like isaf know it aswell.

so where dose that leave us?

as far as i can see a poorer games in 2012 and a govening body that dosent know its arse from its elbow. It makes me feel sick that my subscription contrubutions go towards funding this bunch of t**sers.