YouthSailing, the RYA and Catamarans

Adrian,

In terms of medals won per £ spent I agree we've done very well in the past, however now that the RYA multihull programme has crashed down around its ears, then I'm suggesting they may have taken the view that we arnt going to provide much success in 2009 even if a multihull programme could be re-launched so where would the short term financial gain be?

As for the non-club member in the summer series results, I assume you mean Phil Kirk and his Cherub. It was my impression that he was joining, and anyway your only bitter cos he beat you twice !

Thanks for the congrats, Im cra*ing myself about becoming a dad !

Paul

I have just finished a days work only to come home to a disgruntled husband and son,  firstly what a good idea of the RY A  to  announce  the team for the 2008 olympics before the 'sail  for gold regatta'  has even began?????  Does the RYA not  see that it  has upset many of our boys and girls. Also is  ISAF saying that any cat sailor will be good enough to sail in monohulls or are they saying that cat sailors are below the standard of other sailors . Why are they trying to disillusion our youngster should we not support people like brian phipps and now paul buttler whom have helped and are trying to help these young women and men in their sport . Can they please confirm who won medals at the last event and what they were sailing.  Where and what is the RYA  trying to achive is this not the governing body to whom we in the sailing world should look up to!!    

We as parents of these webbed feet little wonders should ask for answers?        &nbs p;  many thanks lindsay piggott

I don't sail cats....but am still outraged at this announcement. The diversity of a 'set' of classes (RYA or Olympic) requires at least 1 catamaran, just like it needs both singlehander and doublehanders, or skiffs and keelboats.

An online petition is not hard to set up, there are various websites that host them. Best to make sure that between you, you don't unknowlingly set up several!

Originally posted by Teamvmg ISAF are not sugesting anything, they just open their Events Committee meeting up to proposals from national and class authorities. Among about 200 other proposals, the RYA is asking them for cats to be dropped from youth and olympic levels. The fact that they[rya] think it is easy to put a mono sailor on a cat is a complication/decision that will go away if they can abolish top level cat racing through ISAF.

So once again we follow the good old USA into the Crapper... hey why not it worked in Iraq!!!!!

What do the RYA think they are playing at? Mind you you i think we should have seen the writing on the wall when they dropped the F18 development squad and made them jump up to Tornados... perhaps they were trying to price the squad out then?

To many conspiricies.... but whatever it is it is a catastrophie for sailing as a whole.

I stand corrected they have indeed

So why have the RYA taken this bold step?