Thanks to all for understanding. I have read the responses and feel that I am talking to the choir. I agree that cost should be held down and Mary, I like simple things but we all apply RRS and now it looks as though the new rules will deal with a requirement that at a any thing higher than a club level race, membership in US Sailing will be required to race, if the SI's state that RRS are in effect. I would like very much to just have everyone just show up and go race. But, in this day and age you must protect the sponsors with insurance. Insurance starts at $500 per and goes up from there. Events without insurance exposes sponsors and organizers to unbearable liability, where sponsors will not participate. The social events are nice and I guess it is a bribe to get those to attend at least an early registration session, just like tradewinds and steeple chase. We'll just keep on, keeping on I guess, and when we burn out we will just quit. It is really great to be on the water and see all the sails pressing for a start line or straining to see a distance racer come over the horizen, headed to a beach. Sailing is one of the great sports just by beating some of the cost without buying fuel for a stink pot. Can you even imagine what the fuel bills were for those cigaret type boats that cut through the A-Cat worlds course last November? Give me sails any day. <img src="http://www.catsailor.com/forums/images/graemlins/crazy.gif" alt="" />