Nigel,
I understand that perfectly. I'm just saying that the more activity "OTHERS" see regarding a particular class, the more interested they get. When a class is off by itself, the only people who see the activity is the people who are within that class, and it becomes a closed circle which keeps getting smaller. Beach-cat sailors in a specific class are now competing for new sailors within the beach-cat world, as well as trying to attract newcomers from outside the beachcat world.