When this thread started, I would have prefered that the same configuration be kept throughout a regatta. I've changed course by 180!

Since the entire planet seems hell bent and determined to tell us what to do, I propose we do the opposite!!

If memory serves, there is a regatta down in the Caribbean where the local fishermen load their sloops with as many crew as they can carry, hike them out on boards, and when they head downwind to finish all the crew jump off into the water! I vote we adopt that rule! Crew can bail anytime!