The chance to race against 30 Waves and argue with Rick in the same place? Well that sounds like fun.
When other classes want to make rule changes they sometimes allow an "experimental" use of ... whatever. Then everybody gets some experience with how well it works or doesn't. Then they can implement the rule or not, and the guys that went ahead and took the risk have to take it off. At lesat they know up front what might happen.
Google maps says Put-In-Bay is on an island. Is that where the regatta is?