It's all about getting and in the long term keeping more boats on the water in each rig
. After all who wants to sail a Nationals with less than 10 boats in it
, when there are boats sailing at the same time in other rig formats that you could be racing against
. To me holding the Nationals for each rig variety on different days can only increase fleet numbers and that has to be good
.
As for worrying about pot hunters
you could have a rule that you can only win one National Title if that makes people feel better
.