What does need thinking about is with all the incredible high tech, there has got to be a better way to push all the hydraulic fluid around than grinding or cycling! I wonder if anyone thought about hamsters on wheels down working away in the hulls?

Bermuda professes to have a love affair with the sail boat while the boating public here today flies around in a floating cars.

Have we lost our way? Is speed now the glue that motivates us.

The art of Sailing is a fascination that appears to be slipping through our fingers as the desire for speed now takes president on our waters.

The Future of the Cup now the “New Zealand Cup” is all about maintaining balance with competition between countries for the cup being a small part of it, what matters for the future is finding the right boat or a variety boats suitable for every one.

It is up to New Zealand to make the right call be it Mega and Mini, or are they going to search back in time to the traditional days of the Schooner or the mighty “J” class, to sail around Bermuda, our doors are always open.

I find it some what difficult to accept a flying catamaran as being a boat that becomes air born as being a good choice, nice while it lasted as sailing is not with out risk.

Sailing is not one shoe fits all sport, people are diverse and so should any sporting activity be adaptable as variety is the spice of life .

New Zealand would do well to inject more variety with a third class of boat in the the sport of sailing by combining different sizes and types of boats sort of some thing for every body just as the Olympics combines human endurance and sacrifice with many activities.

If you ask 10 people for their thoughts on sailing you will get 9 different answers, number 10 is into something other.

Don’t be surprised to see the next group of strict one design racing machines take the form of a super fast high performance light displacement mono hull with canting keels and fins all having a re sale value to reduce the enormous costs.

Look to see yachts similar as the circumnavigating “Vendee globe” or the Volvo 65, mono hull yachts, with at least a dozen sailors including women clinging to the deck.

As in every international sport their are enormous quantities of money involved that is all good for the very reason that money needs to be in circulation, and not collecting dust in a bank.

Has sailing reached its technological boundaries which exclude many nations?

Sailboats are not space ships.

Sailing is an art form in which every one should be able to participate in as a great majority do in New Zealand.