Oh come on guys, don't guage the lack of support based on posts on this forum. We know there is only a handfull of sailors that post here.

Besides the three of us on the same page has to mean something, normally it would mean the end of days.

Mike, an all expenses paid championship would be beach cat sailors wet dream and would completely turn it around. But my rough budget puts it at about 35k-42k to pull off.

As for the single platform solution... I'm not convinced it would bring more interest. It could potentially solve the problem getting a manufacturer to provide boats and it presents new problems as well. My prefernce would be to stick with the manfacturer provided boats until it's played out then make the switch.

You may not have to drop an event to support the AQ. What we did this year is we combined the AQ with a reguarly scheduled regatta and I suspect the numbers this year will be better than in years past even with the manditory USSailing membership and one start requirement. If you have a lightly attended regatta that could be your candidate. I prefer a standalone AQ but we need to be flexible.

Don't you b!tches give up!