I think the whole conversation is silly, anyway. The IWCA Wave fleets seem to be mostly at sailing clubs or dealerships where they have mast-up storage and have regular racing at their home clubs. Most of them have no interest in traveling to regattas at other locations. Why should they? Club-based fleets of any type of sailboat do all their racing at home and a few might occasionally travel to a North Americans or a Nationals. Most of them are not serious enough about racing to want to leave their comfortable berth and hit the road. Plus, they have series races at home, and they are going to lose points if they leave to go to a regatta elsewhere.It is a different world from the more nomadic Hobie Way of Life where we don't have home clubs and have to travel in order to race and earn points.

So I think if HCA wants to build up participation of Waves at points regattas, they will have more success by recruiting from within their ranks -- moving other Hobie sailors onto Waves -- have them buy a Wave as a second boat, get the kids on Waves, keep your older sailors racing, get more women on the helm. Those are people who already are accustomed to traveling to regattas.

In other words, there is no reason for any changes by anybody.