Timbo

Sooner or later cat sailors will have to bite the bullet and pay the piper.

They will have to JOIN and SUPPORT a club in their region if they want racing to continue. It may not be convenient... but we will need access to the water and club resources to keep the sport of cat racing going...

Now... I am sure there are TONS of marinas to store your boat and launch... its just hard to get the marina to allow a regatta to happen. So... clubs are the future.

Everything I hear about Gulport confirms that THIS Solution is the way we should go in the future.

California.... is making the transistion... Only the Hobie 16's are doing the beach regatta thing... The F18's... are racing in Yacht Clubs.

The Chesapeake Bay is going that way.... cat sailors have joined WRSC.... CBYRA YC's host the majority of events.

The very strong hobie fleets in Div 11 (new jersey, Pa Deleware)... are hanging in there.... But...sooner or later they will also have to find new solutions as well.

Right now... they have two YC.... Rehoboth and Sandy Hook anchoring their racing (4 regattas) ... they create three events (Gunpowder, Barnegat Bay and Wildwood) on the beach. They have two Barnegat Bay YCs hosting events on the coastal bays ... but sadly these are a bit tenuous because they don't have lots of members who belong to these clubs. ...

I think the writing is on the wall... support those clubs by joining and making racing happen now or risk the really strong racing scene they have simply going the way of the dodo bird.