Right.... a kick in the nuts..... that's the ticket for Dave!

Why?... Just the principal of the matter.... Makes me smile!

Re Open Class on the Chesapeake...

Well, the Open Class has collapsed... What we have now are OD classes of Hobie 16, 17, 18 A class and Nacra 20's.

At the last "open class event" we had one boat.... a lonely F16... racing 8 20's and 10 A cats...

The price to race a high performance catamaran on the weekend up here is pretty high... This is not so good for growing the sport. Entry level sailors will hopefully join the Div 11 circuit... or swallow hard and get an A cat.

What we will do is continue to organize open class at some YC events where if we get 3 H16's, 3 TheMightyHobie18's, 3 H17s, 3 Acats and 3 F16's... we have a good race... (the 20's don't move).

mark