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I'm just picking myself up from the floor after reading about the  
ISAF vote on the 2012 Olympic classes. Six monohull dinghies,  
including two low-performance (by implication) double-handers, and no  
cats. Somebody has an odd definition of 'diversity'

Now we know the worst, we can moan about it for a while, but what then?

May I suggest an ambitious way forward. Would there be support in the  
cat-sailing world for an International Festival of Catamarans,  
including the world championships of several classes, to be held at a  
UK location and coinciding with the final week of the 2012 Olympics?

If it comes off, which would involve a massive organisational and PR  
effort, it would show everybody the type of sailing that the public  
really wants to see.

It would also put an end to the suggestion that world-class cat  
racing is expensive or elitist, as the Tornados would be sharing the  
limelight with F-18s, Darts, Hobies, Spitfires and all those other  
cats that real people sail.

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Chas Bedford
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Dart 18  3595
Isle of Sheppey SC





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