I want to take this opportunity to urge all of you in your respective areas to try to include one major "monohull" regatta in your area schedule for 2008. We sometimes do one where we share a course in Columbia and wrapped it up last weekend. Yes, the racing and waiting and traffic is a PIA, but the comments and inquiries we got from the Opti sailors to the Melges 17 sailors, to the Jboats, et all was like they have never realized that catamarans (F18's N20, etc) were high-tech machines. I'm pushing to get us to go to two events. This can help us gain exposure, acceptance, and potentially recruit new blood.