How to make Sailing more 'Televisual'

Okay the only functional way I can think is timed starts- pursuits races, based on event score standings.  

Now I bloody hate pursuit races, I think they are awful, ruin boat on boat tactics and generally geared to either very fast or very slow boats when applied to handicap races.  I must confess to never participating in one with Personal Handicaps in a fleet race, which is effectively what the medal race would become with the 'handicap' reversed to favour the regatta leader, but I shall remain cynical and say it would still be a sh*t race, especially for something that is supposed to be prestigious like the 5 ring circus.

The bottom line- either the Sailing Olympics appeals to the sailing audience- who are all more than capable of following conventional regatta standings like we do our Sunday morning series.  Most of us would probably ditch the medal race due to the anomaly factor of weighting just one race, after all the 'series' is designed to eliminate the randomness and test the widest skill across varying daily conditions.  Or the Sailing Olympics must appeal to that elusive non-sailing audience (it never really will imho).... and do something radical with a qualification/timed starts medal race.  Or shorten the whole thing up.... one race- all or nothing...   

Within the context of 2 week window once every four years, the average bod expects the 'medal race' to finish with the winner in Gold.  That's what my non-sailing mates have said anyway when they were totally bemused by the scoring system. 

_edit: for fear of being accused of 'dumbing down', my personal POV is dump the medal race and stick with a conventional regatta format!!!

10 Races is to many, five then a medal race would be more than enough given the lack of serious nature of the event and the need for it to be a televisual spectacle.

I'm not even sure the windward leeward courses are that ideal for a TV public, they probably don't get the tactical nature of the downwind bit any more than a BBC commentator does, whereas the procession like nature of the old triangle does at least smack a bit of the 1000mtrs.

We all like the inter boat stuff, but i"m not sure 'they' get it in the same way, but there again, isn't there a big enough sailing public paying enough of a license fee to justify leaving it the f**k alone and it be run the way we do it?

I get really fed up with all this dumbing down and pandering to the Sun like media of morons, and the IOC, did anyone else read that ISAF report?