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Tornado Expulsion gives rise to new Multihull Organisation

Andy Rice | February 29, 2008

A new global cat-racing organisation has been formed in the wake of the multihull community’s outrage at seeing the Tornado thrown out of the Olympic Games. The newly established International Multihull Council (IMC) intends to make sure the cat sailors have a voice that will be heard by the International Sailing Federation.

IMC president Paul Pascoe explains the reasons for setting up the organisation. “The decision of the International Sailing Federation (ISAF) to exclude any Multihull Event from the 2012 Olympic Games has shown that we cannot entirely rely on others to promote our interests, so need to establish our own organisation to do so.

“As there is no representation for Multihulls within ISAF, either formally through a Multihull Committee, or informally, through the interests of individual Councillors, national multihull associations from several leading ISAF Member National Authorities (MNA)… Read the rest

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