I was reading about the expense of the north sea regatta and got to thinking.

Suppose we ship ten boats to some really nice place and hold a rotational regatta i.e. ten teams do one race, return to shore and ten different teams race. This is the format the Alter cup uses and it seems to work well. The point is that costs would be significantly reduced.

That's about the only way I'll ever get to anyplace "exotic" to sail.