Multihull Worlds Championships

UK Multhull Racing Association ask ISAF to provide a plan B, straight forward letter from Nick.
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Dear petitioner
You may have seen the bad news in the press that last week the IOC decided not to grant sailing an 11th medal for the 2012 Olympic Games. This means that there will be no catamaran in the 2012 Olympic Games.
The ISAF press release can be found at https://www.sailing.org/london2012/29214.php
Despite this result we would like to thank you for your support over the last couple of years.
Following this bad news UKCRA have sent the following open letter to Goran Peterson at ISAF:

Mr. Goran Petersson
International Sailing Federation
Ariadne House
Town Quay
Southampton
Hampshire
SO14 2AQ
United Kingdom
19th August 2009

Dear Mr. Petersson,
Thank you for lobbying the IOC for an 11th medal, so as to include multihulls in the 2012 Regatta at Weymouth. It is sad to read that your efforts have been turned down. The IOC said that the key positive factors for additional events included whether the changes would increase universality, gender equity and youth appeal, and in general add value to the Games, which an Open Multihull event would certainly do.
While there is a chance that this may change in 2016, that is seven years away – far longer than the horizons of both athletes and commerce. Therefore there is a clear need for some alternative pinnacle to our branch of the sport.
Your press release makes no mention of any contingency plan. If you have one, we ask you to publish it. If you do not have one, we ask you to take the lead by instructing your Multihull Commission to prepare plans for a World Multihull Championship in time for submissions to be made for your Annual Conference in November.
ISAF claims for itself the exclusive right to stage World Championships. With rights come responsibilities. We therefore ask you to exercise that responsibility, as you do for other branches of sailing, such as Match Racing and Team Racing.
Such an alternative platform for the sport’s best sailors to demonstrate their prowess and to show the world at large the wonderful spectacle that is multihull racing would have the full support of multihull sailors worldwide.
It should be an event with official ISAF backing that aims to approach the importance of the Olympics and therefore receive financial support from National Authorities. It should be separate from the championships of individual classes, organised at private initiative.
That would go some way to redress the perceived imbalance that is seen by thousands of passionate multihull sailors. Furthermore it would encourage young talent to remain faithful to multihull sailing so that, when multihulls return to the Olympic stage, the basis for an Olympics that truly represents the pinnacle of multihull sailing is already in place.
Yours truly

Nick Dewhirst
Chairman