I crewed on the Tiger in 1999 - won the Area D Qualifier that year with Pitt. I was at the Hobie 20 North Americans in Tampa for the HCA meeting and first swing at the election between Pitt and McVeigh. I crewed the first Mega on a Tiger with Newsome. Mine was the very first club affected by the return of a Hobie-only policy - the Midwinters East very nearly didn't happen and there are still today some bad feelings associated with how things went down; it shouldn't be a surprise that I don't speak only for myself. I've been at all of the F18 Championships including the first one, though I was on a 6.0 at the time; I even got to help write the F18 Bylaws when the class leaders started coalescing something coherent. I crewed the 2005 Tiger Worlds with Newkirk. I had a ride for the 2006 Tiger event that was cancelled and was part of the fleet e-mails that were circulated in the couple of months prior, and then subsequent when things got bitter.

Self-aggradizement aside, my point is that I was there for all this stuff, too, and I remember things differently than both of you. There are several dozen perspectives, I suspect. We need to leave all that stuff behind and move on. Carry the baggage if you want to, but don't expect help. This thread may not have been meant to be provocative (TK, you scalawag), but it seems like the Wave thread has spilled over some.