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What Happened In The 1996 Olympics Could Affect The London Games In Four Years Time
Here’s how.

The repercussions of last November’s decision by the world (a-hem) governing body - the International Sailing Federation - to dispense multihulls when the Olympic sailing regatta is held in Weymouth in 2012 continues to reverberate around the world.

One new line of attached is the specially created International Multihull Association, a wise-after-the-event lobby group which will try and win friends and influence people amongst the decision makers at ISAF. A reversal of the decision is sought.

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Stories Sailors Tell
*Excerpts from a long post on Kimball Livingston’s must-read blog:

So here we are on the Mysterious East coast, and Harken has just opened a new shop in Newport, so Peter, Olaf, and a passel of the usual suspects from Pewaukee are basking in the (relative) warmth of Rhode Island, where the snow is only about 10 inches deep and a day old. Wisconsin, eat your heart out. Naturally there’s a launch party. I’m on the scene, coaxing Around Alone vet Tim Kent to recount tales from the fluky weather of his qualifying sail with Everest Horizontal.

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Tornado Warnings
Sounds like things got a bit ugly at the Tornado World Championship prizegiving, after Darren Bundock’s old crew John Forbes took the opportunity to have a go at Yachting New Zealand President Jan Dawson over the Tornado’s ejection from the Olympic slate. Sail World’s Richard Gladwell gave his verdict on the affair. Here’s a snippet:

The class did itself no favours at the Worlds prizegiving with an attack on Yachting New Zealand by past ITA President John Forbes, seemingly endorsed by the new ITA President and echoed with the booing from the competitors tables as Yachting New Zealand President Jan Dawson made her way forward to make a closing address to what had otherwise been a brilliant regatta for the class.

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