Rick, I see your frustration, and I know your intentions are in the right place for what you truly believe is the best way to even the class. Like I said several times, there are strong supporters of SMOD, many in voting positions, that's who needs to be swayed. It does, however, completely escape me as to why you wouldn't have taken the opportunity to "be the better man" and go to Havasu anyway. Win it under "their rules" or whatever. My opinion on this is that going to HavaMega and "working the room" probably would have been far more valuable than trying to explain the position here.

Jeremy, I'm all for stopping the negativity too. I posted here not because I sail a Wave, but because our class association, of which I am an officer, gets bashed here by people who don't know how hard we work to please everyone. Not to mention, they never tire of putting words in our mouths or twisting up what they think our intentions are. It gets old. Very old.

And just so everyone knows where I stand on the Wave sails (not that I have a voting position, or a Wave in my yard): Hobie 21s had a box sail rule (for ProSail), so it's not unprecedented under HCA, and I don't see that it would hurt the attendance of Waves at HCA regattas (since there's really no where to go but up at the moment). There are other issues (sail measurement, etc.), but other sailboat classes handle this, and I'm sure we could too.

Mike