I think I should support Cristiano in the following point:
“And Footy-Italia.it is not a dissident parallel entity… is JUST A GROUP OF FRIENT WHO PLAY FOOTY AND REGATTA…”
The banning from the IFCA is one point (and should not be discussed here).
The other is the creation of a new website (what is mainly discussed here). The website is, as I said before, well done. Everyone who creates such a page should be supported by everyone in IFCA and by every footy-sailor, as it is a further collection of links and knowledge about the class and about making our small ships smaller. Further it is great publicity for the class.
After the first statement of Cristiano some missunderstandings about the purpose of his website were clarified (at least for me). He said that his website does not intend to attack the IFCA in any way.
What is missing right now is the proofe of this.
Cristiano made a small step towards the main idea of making the footy-comunity grow with adding a small link on his website to the official sailnumber registration page footy.it.
As aforementioned under conditions of real fairness I wished you- Cristiano- posted a “bigger” link on your webpage to footy.it, that would act as a proof of accepting your local registrar Flavio and therefore completly accepting the authority of IFCA. You’ve done it with every country except your own one… sorry that seems to everyone (hopefully not only to me) like your intention is to split up the group of footy-sailors in your country in to two parts.
There’s nothing wrong with Cristiano’s website except this small act of fairness and sportmensship that’s missing. Everyone could and should create his own Footy-Webpage, as long as he respects the official national Footy-Webpage! (and respecting the official footy-webpage would mean to post a visible link to this website at least as visible as every other link on his website).
From Switzerland,
Jonas