RYA youth awareness campaign

At the end of the day the RYA is interested in Olympic medals. At a young age you could consider any child may have the potential. When they are late teens the cream tends to come to the top, so they know who they want to focus on... Post youth only very few will go full time sailing and there are even less sailors in there 20s who sail full time and are not on some kind of funding.

On the flip side the UK has lots of good coaches and there is no reason why a keen club cannot just give one of them a ring or if you want class specific training contact the respective class association...

Thats my point!  It is up to the club to arrange and fund these events, surely as the infrastructure is already in place it would not be a huge leap for the RYA to try a few adult coaching weekends and see how they go, after all it is the adult majority membership who provide significant portion of their funding.  The cost of running such an event would be relatively low, the hosting club can provide the infrastructure in return for an increase in bar takings! All the RYA need to bring is a couple of coaches some video cameras and maybe a few RIBs.  I might even consider joining if I had access to this type of event!

Because funding exists for "youth sports" while adults are (not unreasonably) expected to pay their own way. 

Funding is an extremelly thorny subject.  I would imagine where grants have been received from extrenal agencies they will have very specific criteria about where they can be used.  However where money has been raised form the membership the charity is free to distrubte it as it sees fit, in accordance with its constitution.  I would be suprised if the RYA constitution did not allow it to fund adult trg and coaching.