that was the Shark midwinters.. a one design shark event. They are just like the isotopes.....why travel... no Sharks in Miami (speaking lfiguratively of course)? They wanted a nice winter venue... so they went to Tradewinds.... they could probably go to a lot of other locations.
I would probably let Tradewinds be actual mid winters for classes that choose to label it as such....EG... Hobie has branding issues with sponsors... so while it may SERVE as an actual midwinter one design event... it can't be called such.
In my model of this event... the Sharks would be the fast boat in the Classic small boat fleet along with Prindle 18s and N 5.2s supercat 17s etc.... If a hobie 16 is in front of you... you loose. Sharks race at Tradewinds also, he wasn't seeing things.
"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
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