RYA or new organisation

Too focused on Olympic pathways

System spits out non-top performing youths

No push for adult race coaching

Inconsistencies in PY system

But there are a number of big positives which a dinghy lobby group would not be able to grapple with;

National dinghy show

Regional support for clubs if they ask

Management of PYs, Rules, conduit for funding, lobbying for clubs in disputes

My impression is of an organisation with good intent that is bogged down by the diversity of waterborne activities that it tries to represent, and by the inertia of an organisation that is not driven by the markets.

From a dinghy racers perspective the make up of the RYA management committee does not suggest that there is anybody on board that is likely to improve matters;

http://www.rya.org.uk/SiteCollectionDocuments/chiefexec/Web%20Documents/BOARD_PROFILES.pdf

At our club I race an RYA National Class dinghy, where the RYA adminster the class rules, issue certificates and sail numbers, and train our measurers.  My club has benefited from a £50k Sport England grant facilitated by the RYA providing new changing rooms, we have a fleet of poly boats to train our youths, facilitated with Sport England grants.  When I go racing, I race to World Sailing rules of which the RYA are the MNA, and three of our club races use PY numbers, administered by the RYA.  A group of our youths have been sailing RS Teras as part of the South West Regional youth squad, and each March a whole load of us go to the National Dinghy Exhibition; 

My disappointment is that there remain issues where the RYA could improve, not just in delivery, but in how they communicate with the adult racing dinghy fraternity.

It wouldn't be a forum without a conspiracy theorist or two..... besides human nature means that any alternative organisation would go through all the same infancy issues that have affected dinghy racers the RYA have long since put behind them.  

Case in point-  I don't think anyone who is properly informed on how PYs are recommended actually thinks there's any collusion in the room, not anymore at least..... it's impossible, there's nigh-on zero empirical evidence in play, meaning rightly or wrongly, it's just based on statistical data alone.  

A new organisation would end up 'four legs good, two legs better'... assuming it's successful enough to survive more than a year or two of initial enthusiasm.  

So far the poll indicates that a new organisation's 'approval rating' is sub 25%.... in other words, it would be doomed before it started!!!