From Michael Mollerus:
Re, the 29er World Championships in Aarhus, Denmark. Although the French team of Lucas Rual and Emile Amoros won the regatta, after leading off and on throughout, the United States was also well-represented at the top of the 210+ boat regatta. Five of the seven U.S. teams participating finished in the top 20, with three boats finishing in the top 10 (the boats were 8th, 9th, 10th, 11th and 19th) - the U.S. had more teams in the top 20 than any other country, all without any formal support from a national sailing federation (unlike most other countries). I suspect that these results are among the better results, across the class, that the U.S. has seen in an Olympic-feeder class, and it is clear that the U.S. 29er organization, the sailors, their parents (disclaimer: I am a parent of one of the sailors) and suppliers and others that support the class must be doing something right, based on these results and the many skilled sailors that are currently in and have previously come out of this class. I don’t pretend to know exactly what it is, but it is clearly something that U.S. Sailing should be actively looking at and building on.
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