I liked that some people had boats available (for crew or charter) at qualifiers to teams that wanted a shot at the AC but didn't have the boat.

With attendence down at regattas, it would appear that there would be more boats available to use for qualifiers, no?

Perhaps your area could work on some sort of contact tree or other database to match sailors with boats?

Perhaps consider setting up your sailing season as more of a series than a bunch of random regattas, culminating with the qualifiers?