"DSK" wrote

Jean Pudl wrote:

And does US Sailing offer anything to the 'cruising education oriented'
boating community that ASA does not?

ASA was there first, in fact at one point US Sailing stated as their
official policy that they would rather not get involved in certification
for keelboat sailing & cruising education, since there were so many other
groups already doing this (ASA and the Power Squadron). Then they saw the
revenue potential and changed their minds.

The US Power Squadron at the upper levels is just as much
as mess as US Sailing. However at the Squadron level
they do a fabulous job of training people at minimum cost.


The rest of your material is interesting, but misses the point. US
Sailing IS the "National Governing Body" of the sport according to an act
of Congress. That is a matter of fact.

Big deal. Other than changing the rules unecessarily and mismanaging
protests, what do they actually DO? Collect money. Yeah, that's a
"service."


Don't get me wrong on this, the U.S. Olympic sailors are great athletes
and very skilled... but I would describe USSA's role in the selection
process as interfering, money-laundering, and playing favorites.

If this is true, it should be documented and hammered
home until the lose their "Governing Body" assignment.

Don't get me started on that. I struggled on correcting their race
committee training for years. USSA has a habit of producing inflexible
big-headed tyrants for PROs.

Tell us more Doug. I'd love to hear about it.


USSailing IS the "National Governing Body" by act of Congress.

And I guess the benevolent Congress awarded them this distinction out of
recognition for their outstanding service to humanity?

No, US Sailing paid some lobbysits to get it done. A comment on the state
of both the Congress and US Sailing.

I believe you Doug. I'd like to know more about how US Sailing
spend their money.

I'd like to see them publisize report with content in them instead of
fluff. What do they actually do? Why won't they put it down
in writing?

Where do they spend all the money?