Hey - Tampa Bayr's - Thanks for making the trek over - especially with less than great forecasts/weather. You let me know which regatta I should come over for. Sorry the weather wasn't all that good - Murphys Law I guess.

Yeah, the thing about the Taipan/F16 - there are so many configurations the boat sails well in - it is hard to get everyone lined up sailing the same. I was the main culprit this time - this is my wife's favorite regatta, and her parents live right there so they could baby sit our daughter. We had planned sailing sloop for some time and I couldn't back out of that. She did the F16hp nationals in the keys with some 15 knot + days and it was a little overwhelming trying to fly the chute in those conditions, so when the weather was similiar to those conditions - she opted to leave the spin behind.

In Florida we have an odd set up - probably over 1000 miles of coastline not including inland waterways that are heavily sailed as well. In my area of Cocoa Beach, Miami, Tampa and Jacksonville, there are so many races within an hour of you - that you never have to leave the area to be able to race every other week during the summer season. So it makes it hard to get people to travel to meet in a common location. So five boats to show up at a given race has been a bit tough for us in Florida. When we get to winter season and late fall, the regattas thin out so that there maybe only one race a month and travelling somewhere to sail makes for sense.