Hi Robert -

I wanted to look into only having one multihull venue for Midwinters this year to get participation up. If you look at the results from the last couple of years for the event, though, it appears that just about all of the MBYC fleet is highly unlikely to travel to ABYC, and there were more boats on the line up here. We decided it would be kinda pointless to try and convince MBYC to NOT have a start for cats - it would only increase the size of the fleet at ABYC by two or three boats at best, at the expense of potentially four or five locals down there.

If you have an interest in coming up, there will be a lot of F18s at ABYC - we picked up five new F18 members since last year's event, so we're pushing 15 boats on the line. And MBYC came up here and won it last year.