Mark,

Of course it was (and we were had a terrible pointing problem - not enough mast rake on Saturday) but only because they were present - no Hobie 20's were making deliberate attempts to slow our progress after the start. Slower class boats wanted the faster class boats to go ahead and pass them and get out of the way as quickly as possible and get out of the wind - at least I did. You know that you can generally count on that any time there are other boats on a course. My previous point is: how happy would the H20 sailors be if I started covering them but their focus and intent was was on competing with the rest of the H20 fleet? I would not be happy if it were me. On several occasions I was working to overtake or keep down a 6.0 or two in the midst of some H20's and we both tried to minimize our effect on each other because we were in different classes.

I still think it's an interesting idea that might be fun in the smaller regattas. However, I would be frustrated in the more serious events (like Catfight, Tradewinds, etc) if all the sudden other classes, that may have advantages on different points of sail and wind / water strengths, are trying to make me have a bad day. I got into class racing to get away from this.