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With ISAF annual meeting taking place in Athens right now, and several of our main multihull lobbyers present, maybe its time to remind some people which are the the very same foundations of the Olympic movement…
I wrote this on August 16, 2009. Since then, the Tornado Class lead by its president, Roland Gaebler, has been doing the right things to regain the Olympic multihull spot > catsailingnews.blogspot.com/2009/08/tornado-and-olympics-faster-higher.html
I just heard that my great sailing friend and former CEO of Hobiecat Europe has passed. May The endless oceans…
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Looks like in your report the Hobies are not really present. Suggest to rewrite the article.
Thanks for the great report Wik. Great battle.
If I correctly read the results the overall winner this year is a Hobie16
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The Tornado class and UKCRA have been the backbone of the campaign pushing ISAF and grabbing media attention.
It's just a shame the other big manufacturers have shown no interest. I am sure they will appear when it's chance to choose the equipment.
I really hope we get a multihull back for Rio.