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Transcript of Remarks Delivered by Chip Cunningham (W1321, Solje) Upon Being Awarded “Most Promising New Wayfarer 2011” During the C.W.A. General Meeting, January 21, 2012, at the Toronto Sailing and Canoe Club
 
Before I thank a few people whose depth of knowledge and generous support have made this moment possible (Al’s depth of knowledge, for instance, is said to draw over six feet with the board down and I have also to mention  Earl Schnur whom some of you may remember, and who lives just a couple of miles from me. I am pretty sure he feels his board goes that deep, too. Earl helped me a bunch, also—although he’s U.S.). Anyhow, I’d like to say a few words about what this award means to me and by extension, mankind in general.
 
Today I have generously been charged not with the formerly frivolous “Rookie of the Year” however apt that may be, but through primarily Al’s far-reaching insight into the untapped potential of this award, the newly named “Most Promising Wayfarer 2011.”
 
Thank you. (Pause for applause.)
 
Often such awards bestowed in advance of actual performance fail to leverage their full potential. As an American, I can only cite the example of President Obama’s being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
 
I myself have been called promising the the past, though never as explicitly as tonight and it has not always worked out so good.
 
“Why?” we ask. Why does it sometimes augur a new dawn of hope or sometimes fade into business as usual?
 
I think it is often due to the lack of focus that accompanies the term “Most Promising". “Promising what?”, one may fairly ask.
 
Tonight I will attempt to bring a focus to the promise of “Most Promising Wayfarer” and hopefully thereby usher in a new dawn—a fresh breeze, as it were—into the so-far illustrious history of the Wayfarer dinghy which was designed by Ian Proctor in 1957, and with the importation to North America this past season of the first Hartley Mark IVs, entered on an exciting new phase in maritime history.
 
Over 5,000 years ago in China during the Shang and Yin periods, China did not have any Wayfarers. Being the remarkably conservative society it has been - the ongoing Communist Revolution, initiated and led by the late Mao Tse-Tung in 1944 notwithstanding - the Wayfarer dinghy has never held an important place in Chinese culture, and sadly continues in that obscurity to this day.
 
Posessed with the largest human population on Earth of (and I believe this is an exact figure) a trilliondy billion people, which population has been experiencing a shift toward an increasingly Western free enterprise economic model, including emphasis on leisure enjoyment, while I was thinking about it recently, it occurred to me that China represents perhaps the last great frontier for significant expansion of the Wayfarer dinghy class.
 
I had two years of Chinese language in college back in the sixties. At least I think I did. I am still friends with my Chinese teacher from that time, Peng Shih-Chen, shen-shung.
 
With this award in hand, I will trailer my boat, Solje, W 1321, to Peng’s house (he lives near me on a small lake) and introduce him to Wayfarer sailing. He, being a very intelligent and curious man, will recognize immediately its value.
 
Then I will be able to convince him to help me write a chain letter in Chinese about how great Wayfarers are (including the social side) and we can email it to all of his relatives in China. The Chinese are great fans and users of the internet, and I think it should be a very short time—less than a year for sure (we could include the threat of really bad luck falling to anyone who doesn’t pass the email on)—so in less than a year I figure we could scare up, conservatively, a million new Wayfarers.
 
Obviously this kind of rapid growth particularly among a predominantly non-English speaking population will require considerable administrative anticipation on our part.
 
(Here the speaker begged to be stopped and removed from the stage. The request was granted to everyone’s relief.)