Originally Posted by Mark Schneider
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What a great event! It set the bar for things to come here on the West Coast as far as F18s are concerned


Outstanding job of fleet development.

Sounds like some of the key's were
1) Buy in from the racers that this championship had to be on your schedule and supported by the hot racers up and down the coast.

2) Killer Yacht Club with a reputation for great racing.

What other factors (behind the scenes leadership stuff, scheduling, etc. etc. went into making this a signature event and a keystone for building the F18 class on the west coast?

The west coast cat sailors have been leading the trends in the US for years... we need to crib their strategies ASAP!

By my accounting two big success stories ... They started the trend to join Yacht Clubs and race with rest of the world.. (On the Chesapeake... we noticed and copied)

They have the CISA clinics.... (Still a dream on this side. sigh)


We have a CISA equivalent clinic in the North East called the Brooke Gonzalez Advanced Racing Clinic. http://www.sailnewport.org/npt/cliniclanding.aspx

We also have a group of guys that have build a fantastic F18 fleet (virtually forcing me to buy one).
15 boats registered for the Newport Regatta right now. http://www.sailnewport.org/npt/m/_general/clnptregattaentries.asp
We had 17 boats at my first regatta with the new boat a few weekends ago. It's all happening. Finally people are gravitating towards a few good classes instead of 30 boats in 20 different classes.

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