What we have is an event with posted rules. How we got here needs to be irrelevant, if we are to build it to a sucess. That is the high road that needs to be taken.
What happens next in terms of long-term rules, etc. should be a separate issue, but for anyone to be taken seriously, showing up would be a good first step.
As for the IWCA vs IHCA Wave rules, I have watched this for a long, long, long time (since its inception, actually). The main point put forward originally by IWCA (published in Catsailor) was that SMOD sails cost more, that's why IWCA wanted to be able to use multiple sail makers. Now, it's gone down the road of making the sail fit your personal style, which gives ammunition to the IHCA SMOD position, as this has the potential to be viewed as an arms race.
Still, none of that matters for this event. If people choose not to show up, they simply will not have much political pull in the future. When you show up with lots of boats, you'll start getting attention. Who knows, when the good Wave sailors win with factory sails, this whole debate might just go the way of the dodo...
