Unless the marks start carrying locating equipment that the electronics can pick up, I just don't see any advantage in having that stuff on a 2 man boat. You simply can't input enough data into the thing that won't be undone by the first windshift. Perhaps...and just maybe you would have enough time to in a large fleet race to ping the pin and the boat and get a distance to the line reading - but so what? I think it would be an incredible distraction and not so much of an advantage. I really believe that if you are using your electronics for anything other than a quick reference / gut-check in our style of racing that they are actually a disadvantage. There are so many other things you should be looking at.

What's the goal? To keep the rich guys from outspending us regular joes? They still have to sail.

Granted, my dog changed color and species, but I think a honeymoon period for those types of electronics should be considered to see if they do make a difference. If the consensus is that they do...$hit-can 'em. The a-cat class is pretty smooth in the way they watch and slowly consider new developments until it starts to look like it might be detrimental to the class. I think there's something to be learned there.