I urge you to speak with Kevin Rejda? of PBYC who I believe will be the Regatta Chair AND
Eric White, the F16 class chairman and proponent for this regatta option.n Eric is a voting member on the championship committee and participated in the budget discussion.
Those are the people who will be marketing the regatta or answering your questions.
Bert Rice has handed over the control in this process because he is chair of the committee.
Trust me... Choices were made and I can tell you that EVERY SINGLE ONE of those choices were made by the sailors that you know personally ... our names are on the set of minutes. NOT the nameless and faceless big shots of USSA who are trying to "fleece the sailors"
Final point, The committee has not finalized anything yet... as you would see in the notes. In the 3 or 4 weeks of this committee we have ginned up out of NOTHING or worked with two clubs to get proposals for a fall event around two US world championships and 3 or 4 national championships
Soooo... Back to the big picture FOR THE FUTURE What is an elite sailor Todd.... What is the Multihull championship about?
Help me out...
I think the word elite needs to be dropped. Elite sailors are Olympians and world champions, as stated before. But what made an Alter Cup champ before was someone who had won in their area through qualifiers then beat others who had done the same at the Alter Cup finals, on EQUAL platforms. I'm not sure how this can be achieved equitably while using your own boat.Sounds as if this has turned into a plain old one design regatta, just for a really nice trophy.The previous qualifiers could have been won on any platform, thus doing so you may beat the rockstar of the chosen platform (F-16 in this example) on the boat your good on. From the sound of it,with an open invite,now he can show up and whip you on your chartered boat because he knows the platform. In the past he couldn't be there because you BEAT him in the qualifiers. I must be missing something because this seems to me to diminish the whole process.
"I said, now, I said ,pay attention boy!"
The cure for anything is salt water - sweat, tears, or the sea Isak Dinesen If a man is to be obsessed by something.... I suppose a boat is as good as anything... perhaps a bit better than most. E. B. White
