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Left: and here’s one especially for Rod’s chaseboat driver, Harley, he of the curiosity about strange sticks hanging off the mast with funny sails on the end. This is Flyer winning the 1977/78 Whitbread… and a crew who expect good notice of the next gybe. And then there’s Steve and Dave Clark’s new UFO budget foiler (above)… simpler, faster and to ‘Harley’ probably closer to what a sailing boat looks like. Smart fella, that Harley
and everyone agreeing what a farce the class selection has been, again. And how we need to change the whole system next time… One brief paragraph, as a side note on the US presidential race:
three hundred and nineteen million people in the United States of America, and the best we can do is Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump? Seriously, is that what the USA has to offer for the leader of the most powerful nation on the planet? Is it too much to ask the candidates to explain policy and howthe US is going to address the issues it, and the world, have, instead of bagging each other via Twitter and social media. Something with a lot more substance than ‘we will build a wall’, ‘bomb the crap out them’, or the other candidate ‘is not fit for office’. Sad for the people of the US and the rest of the world. Shake your head and softly whisper ‘WTF’. So, with all this in mind, I offer a pathway for making a decision re the 2020 Olympic class selections before things sink down to US election levels. No more talk of this class vs that class, keelboat vs kiteboard or foiling Moth vs Finn – first get a framework of what we are trying to achieve.
To start with we have 10 sets of medals to earn and are limited to a fixed number of athletes; the IOC demand equal gender in those numbers (even though sailing is far from equal gender when it comes to participation). These are the facts. Coach’s tip: ignoring the facts does not change the facts.
Is sailing best served by using classes that are popular and represent the sport as it is, or by classes that excite the TV audience’s imagination, and perhaps are where yachting is (or should be) going in the future? Or a combination of both? Is Olympic sailing a show for TV above a competition to prove the best, or the other way around? Answer these kinds of questions first, then worry about the classes we use at the Games.
In 2012, during the last Olympic classes debate, it was recom- mended and agreed that kiteboards be at the Rio Olympics. The various committees and ISAF itself were vilified, called idiots and incompetent, and the backlash got the decision overturned. But here we are again having the same debate with no clear mandate of where and why we are going. Were they forward thinking or idiots? Sometimes the world is not ready for visionary ideas. Crazy, good crazy: John Bertrand wins the Etchells 22 World Championship at 69 years young! Fifteen new OK Dinghies are under construction in New Zealand, and a whole lot more in Denmark. The TP52 class is the ‘Formula One’ of big boat sailing – to be in the hunt to win, you better bring your best game. J boats are still awesome! Oh, and the 49er is the perfect Olympic boat, keep that one in! I’m just saying.
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