Hi Dan

How many yacht clubs on the west coast have the space and local interest and are developing standing catamran fleets?

I assume that the other yacht clubs which don't have a cat fleet still participate in the regional sailing authority and offer you starts at their events.

On the Chesapeake, These CBYRA (our regional Sailing Authority)offer access to the water and beach cat racing.
West River SC, Miles River YC, Cambridge YC, Rock Hall YC, Corsica River YC, Naval Academy SS, Tred Avon YC, Potomac River YC, Southern Maryland SA, all support cat racing by offering beach cat starts.

Only the West River SC and Potomac river YC have a standing fleet of cats.

Fortunately for us, I was able to persuade these CBYRA clubs to not look so closely at the registration forms where it asks "what club do you belong to?"

Sadly, Many of the beach cat sailors don't belong to a club or US Sailing. So just like the west coast, in principle, you must be a club member of one of the CBYRA affiliates to race. You must also join CBYRA to be scored in High Point. You also get discounts on entry fees for US Sailing Membership.

This year, the schedule was based ENTIRELY on events sponsored by CBYRA yacht clubs after our local Hobie Fleet (Fleet 54) had to cancel their spring event and CRAC opted not to host their three annual events this year.

(The writing on the wall is getting larger and larger!)

Your point that we can't expect people to run races for us when we choose to not join a club and pay their dues and contribute service time is spot on.

Mark