Back to Hank's recent Spring Fever course. The fleet size is pretty similar to Tradewinds but I had the real feeling that last year the traffic we had to contend with was less. Having the start at the bottom of the course and the finish at the top did require more race committee people but because the starts would happen whenever a fleet got back in the start queue instead of in sequence when EVERYONE was finished, the fleet was much more spread out and I felt like the traffic was much easier to navigate through. The starts just keep rolling all day which kept the fleets spread out and got us more races.

The start and finish lines were also outside the course which made a BIG difference in traffic by opening up many more lanes up and downwind. With the start/finish line in the middle we were restricted to two or three lanes downwind causing a lot of congestion.