I read a blog this morning that just made me mad. I’ve written a bit over the last few months about sections of the sailing industry that believe their sport is somehow inferior. Perhaps its a UK thing to just find the bad news in order to sell more papers or magazines. Perhaps it is easier to play to the whingers than to look a little further for good news and optimism. Elaine Bunting, writing in a blog  for Yachting World headlined her piece ‘Yacht Racing – Dead or Alive?’ What annoys me more than the article’s premise is that YBW.com don’t allow comments on the site. Instead, in typical old fashioned magazine style, you can email the author and they can choose which comments to show or not. Well, since this is 2009, if they don’t want to let

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