Did ISAF make the right decision?

Hi, I appreciate all the time everybody has put into this but can anyone tell me what is the point of this poll. Do the Olmpic Committee read Yachts and Yachting Forum??

Can we not now get back to the business of catamaran sailing and do it to impress and encourage others to fly two hulls and not one.

We will get it back with a majority in the future.

After all the weather forecast for Weymouth in 2012 is very very light!

Nick

Hi again

Have had a chat to a couple of the guys who were down in Estorial and it gets even stranger. Apparently the RYA worked with a Lobby group of cat sailors from the UK to ensure the continuity of the cat in the Olympics but alas it did not work. Very strange that France ditched the Tornado as third most successful European country in the class.

Bye for now

I don't blame them for ditching the Tornado from the olympics, but they should have kept a cat in.  The tornado has become just far too expensive to campaign for all but the richest countries.  Even the UK and America only have one or two teams on the olympic circuit, and most of the time they race F18s, only using the Tornado for the big events.  F18?! now there is a thought!, would the visual spectical be any worse in the eyes of a non-sailing "joe public" if the cat class was say the hobie tiger than the tornado, it still goes quick, has three sails and flys a hull most of the time, oh!, and its properly one design, and much cheaper so more countries can compete.  Then again if i remember there is a limit on the total number of competitors for sailing in the games and making classes more accessable would put more pressure on qualification for the big countries or for ISAF to blag more spaces for one of the less photogenic sports.  On that i could not comment further, but its a thought, what do people think??

For the record my choice of clesses would run ike this:

single handers: male: laser  female: laser radial or byte CII
double hander: mixed ( ie: one male and one female in each boat): 470
skiff: male: 49er  female: 29erXX
windsurfer: male: RSX  female: RSX
cat: open/mixed: hobie tiger (or open F18)
keelboat: male: star or SB3  female: yngling or SB3

that makes 10 events, keeps both types of spinnaker in, cats in, parity between the sexes across all diciplines and proves that its not just horse riding where the sexes can compete on level terms.  (Oh and the keelboats should be more fun to watch too)