Mary, This may be for another thread, but when you mentioned how time consuming it was to attend a 2 day regatta it got me thinking. We have found in our fleet that regatta attendance is down and this year we are going to try to focus the fleet to commit as a group to attend a limited selection of local (1 day) and divisional (2 day) regattas. I wonder if we couldn't generate more regatta attendance if we had more 1 day events. Then one can do the chores at home as well as race on the weekend. These would inevitably be more local events as one wouldn't want to travel too far for only one day of sailing.