Class Selection for 2016

Originally posted by Contender443 Originally posted by Foiling_Toff Leadmines are sailed at a professional level, so should they be represented at the Olympics at all?   But all of our Olympic sailing team are professional sailors and most of them sail leadmines. Presumably they do that to make the big money.   There  are very few Olympic sports where the competitors are amateur.   So sorry this argument does not work.

I won't get into an argument about this as it's not relate the topic, but if it's the case, what is the point in the games at all?

Can I just say that I think the argument that the 49er should be removed because the Olympic bods cant control them is rubbish. Yes it's difficult at times, but have you never seen an F1 driver crash?

As for the woman's skiff, what the council need to do is make a decision so that people can commit. I agree, who wants to waste money on a boat that wont take you anywhere? If the committee went ahead and chose the Rebel (or 800) the Francis Peters out there can just get on with it. Sitting in limbo does no good.

But the Star? No it shouldn't replace the 49er, and nor should it replace anything else, no way. But we cant ignore it. Maybe we have to just accept that we can never please everyone but have as many events as we can without being silly, represent the major areas?

Or am I the one being silly?

The decision has been made see http://www.yachtsandyachting.com/news/?article=156965

Hmmm.....  One multihull, two boards, seven (count'em) different flavours of centreboard monohull, no keelboat. I'm not convinced that is a balanced slate. 

Originally posted by gordon The Star is out of the Olympics. I predict that it will remain the class of reference for all serious racing sailors,

Thanks for that, I needed a good laugh...