Mark,

You hit a sore spot with me and I'm sorry if this sounds mean-spirited but...

I strongly disagree with you on why our spring regatta has had poor attendance. It is not because it is poorly organized event as someone has mentioned previously, and I happen to take offensive to that as I put a tremendous amount of time, effort and heart into that event and every other event I plan through the year.
Poor attendance at the event is not because of how the event is scored. Do you speak regularly with the sailors in our Division? Do you know what they want? I can guarantee you it is not a different scoring system. It is too move the event off the oceanfront.
Quote and analyze all the polls taken off CatSailor if you like, but I hate to break this to you Mark, even though I like CatSailor Magazine very much and this internet site, it is not a complete and true representation of all the Cat sailors out there. I can name many cat sailors and racers that have no idea this place even exists.

It is very easy to sit back and cast criticism on how others run their events or how they should score them and why you are not going to go to their event because you don’t like this, or you don’t that. But think about this. There are dozens of very dedicated people out there who spend enormous amounts of time and effort and heart into planning these events. Sometimes, they are practically the only one doing anything, but they keep plugging away doing the best they can with what they’ve got.

If people like you keep choosing to sit back and tell others how they should run their events and then maybe you might drag your boat out and come race, you are going to find yourself in the same position you are right now. Sitting at your computer still bitching about how these events are run and how you think it should be done.

Or worse yet, the people who do plan and run these events will get tired of it and stop doing it. Then you won’t event have an event to throw opinions on.

By the way the Raven Rookie race is for rookies - people who have never raced before. Surely you are not saying you felt the need to race in it?

Tracie