Resistance to the HJS Executive Committee's decision on sailing in the Optimist class keeps growing. A letter to the HJS and a strong protest against this decision was written by national judge and Optimist class measurer Josip Jospić:
Josip wrote about how harmful this decision is for the quality of competition and sailing in Croatia, and about the financial aspects: with this decision things will be much harder for the clubs, because they will have to travel all over Croatia to collect the necessary five 1.6 regattas, whereas until now they could collect the same number of regattas in their own region.
He rightly observed that our neighbours the Slovenians and Italians will try to exploit this foolishness of our "office people" and will no longer come to Croatia for the strong regattas, but will instead organize their own regattas on the same dates, which we will have to attend.
Letter to the HJS - Josip Jospić
This letter also prompted a thoughtful response from our international judge Miroslav Bjelajac, president of the international jury at last year's New Year's Regatta. It is hard to single out the most important part, so it is best to read it in full by clicking the link below:
