Last weeks poll question asked if you thought US Sailing’s decision to make every sailboat race participant a member of US Sailing is a good idea or not.  Well the majority of you all answered NO.  We would agree with you but after doing some research and a comment from one of our readers we would have to disagree.

However, we don’t agree with the way US Sailing has approached this situation.  There has to be a better, more fluent way of encouraging membership other than just mandating it.  We need the leadership to implement prodceedures and policies that will encourage regatta organizers and racers alike to promote membership.  Ideas such as US Sailing supporting regattas with money based on the percentage of participants that are US Sailing members.  This would definitely motivate sailors to join the membership revolution.  There are probably many other ideas and if we think of them we will certainly write about them here.

Have a good idea about how to get US Sailing to the next level along with the rest of our sport?  Just post a comment, we would love to hear it.