Note: we pushed this to the top today to hopefully get a final push against the elitist pricks who run this sorry ass org…
There really isn’t anything that World Sailing can’t fuck up, and despite the beaten wife syndrome of many of it’s true believers, we aren’t the only ones saying it…
You may not be aware that the Executive Committee of World Sailing intend to bring major changes to the Paris Olympics of 2024. It is paramount that those who are in a position to defend our sport and its character, starting at club level, understand the message that we are trying to convey as we believe for many reasons that the very future of our sport is being put at risk. Some of us are sailors who became Olympians because of yacht clubs who embraced us when we were very young and supported our dreams. Some of us even went on to make sailing into a career.
But it is too easy for administrators and those who control sailing to become removed from the sport they have been appointed to help to manage.
Fundamentally our sport is and always has been based upon three fundamental pillars: sailors, clubs and classes. Sailing is facing a critical period in our long involvement in the Olympic Games and it is dangerous to think that ‘this does not matter to me’. Well, it does.
Read on.
