It would be nice if we could do something about the no modifications allowed in the qualifiers. I understand why that is, but it does keep quite a few people from participating.
The best thing you can do in this case is to make sure that your local regatta results are submitted for evaluation by the Portsmouth group. If they get enough data on a boat, the brackets go away.
Jake the mods I think he's talking about are things like the mods that allow you to carry a spin, non stock sails stuff like that. I don’t think he’s talking about boats with provisional numbers.
Adding the mods will only exacerbate the lack of fairness issue.
Yup, that's what I'm talking about.
MHRA used to run the Area G qualifiers at one of its regattas. A big problem was that several of the most active club members had non-class legal boats. So then there had to be a start for the Alter Cup qualifer and then another start for the 'illegals', which mucked up the club's point series.
And now that the G qualifier is a stand-alone event, the most active MHRA racers can't go because they don't have legal rigs, and the casual racers aren't inclined to go because the usual suspects aren't going.
