Unfortunately, not making the trip to Alameda this year.

I believe we all have to be in this boat together regardless of "the edict", that was ONE change. With the recent changes made by HCC (17, 18, 20) serious thought of the future needs to start now (IMHO). There's got to be an in between point or I see it dying. We've talked about the FX1, and the possibilty of it becoming the next dead boat. The promotion of any any cat at a local level is the answer to drawing more people to racing. HCA needs to relax their view of this. Years ago a crillion HCA regattas were available to race, now it involves up to 8-hour drives, that's not newbie friendly news. Sanctioned events look to be fewer and on a regional and national level in the future, unless the Tiger class grows.

I may be a one-man band blowing the horn for a change and there are a lot of people very paranoid about being ousted (post-edict) for doing anything other than the way it was 20 & 30 years ago, but come on people, it's a different world now. Again, there can be some common ground or the whole thing, in certain regions, goes kaput.