The club where I used to have my cat was next to an international regatta center, there used to be dingy races every weekend right in front of the small beach where we used to launch.

Sometimes there was no avoiding going through race fields.
I got yelled at a few times (especially with the spi up, I guess some didnt like the wind shadows <img src="http://www.catsailor.com/forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" /> ).