Originally Posted by Mark Schneider
the NOR is pretty clear.

I could argue about what the NOR says in terms of class breakout, but I'm not going to.

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In an open invitational event such as this, there is no way the Organizing Authority can know ahead of time what boats.
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Not true! they have 40 boats pre registered already.

As of two days before the event. If you asked the OA how many boats of each design they would have the day before they published the NOR, there's no way they could have guessed.

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In a perfect world... perhaps... but at the Wine and Roses PRO found out... the agreement reached at the skippers meeting by speaking with a few people was not understood or accepted by all of the sailors.

Which is a problem I'm trying to avoid by polling the sailors ahead of time.

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I suspect the PRO knows how many starts he can manage and will just decide with out the big conference call.

I suspect that the PRO knows she can run a better event with competitor input, than by acting in a vacuum.

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The important issue to get clear is that the sailors expect to race all spin boats around the course or just their one design class. This was the fundamental problem at Wine and Roses.

I believe the NOR makes it clear that Catfest will be scored (and awards given) in multiple ways.

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Absolutely... but the other half is to tell the competitors with sufficient time so that they can choose.

Choose what?

But, none of that is really germaine. I asked the other people going to Catfest what is their starting preference. Would you prefer a separate start, or a combined start? My intent was to get a discussion going before the competitors' meeting, so that we could give the OA/PRO advance input and hopefully get a better regatta.

Mark, I don't see your name in the preregistration list. Are you attending? If so, what kind of boat will you sail and what is your start preference? Would you be willing to canvas your class and relay their desires to the OA/PRO at registration so as to have an event that is better than "Whine and Roses" was?

You can complain about how RC did something that the sailors didn't like - or you can help RC run things better. I'm opting for the latter.