US SAILING President Gary Jobson talks - where to from here? Part 2

12:06 AM Sat 18 Sep 2010 GMT

'Gary Jobson making his acceptance speech at the US Sailing AGM in 2009' USSailing

A Conversation with the President (Part Two) Sailing in the U.S. is at an interesting crossroads: participation is down, competing rating rules are creating confusion, the America's Cup has a long way to go before it can reclaim its halcyon days of 2007, and even American Olympic sailing-when taking the long view-has seen a decline in earned medals since the 1980s and early 1990s. But all is far from doom and gloom: day-glow green shoots abound with the Cup, US SAILING Team AlphaGraphics has been on a roll recently, and while we're still looking at an alphabet soup with rating ...

Click here for full story.

by David Schmidt