Hey, Carl, I'm with you! I guess I must be a one-design nazi, too. There's no other way to race, as far as I'm concerned. It's more exciting to race Sunfish one-design than catamarans on Portsmouth. But, of course, it is more exciting to race catamarans one-design than to race Sunfish one-design.

Portsmouth is just a necessary evil because we catamaran people all want different boats and there aren't enough of any specific breed. Portsmouth is a completely different game, because you are not racing against other boats -- you are just racing, as an individual, against the clock and trying to get around the course as fast as possible. It's like Steve Fossett setting records with Playstation.

Some people like the individualistic aspect of racing on Portsmouth -- no tactics to worry about in terms of other boats, just the strategy of where to go for the best wind and the fastest angle for yourself and how to make your boat go as fast as possible and how to cut off seconds everywhere you can in terms of tacks and jibes and mark roundings.

Nothing wrong with that. But as I said, racing on Portsmouth is a different game -- sort of like playing golf as opposed to chess.