Hi all,

I believe many of the points Luke and Matthew made make sense, also that many of them are what Mossies have been doing, which has made them so succesful in recent years (particularly travelling to mixed class regattas), but never hurts to be reminded. Last seasons good idea in Vic I think, was seperate sloop states which meant about 6 new crews introduced to mossies.

Matthew thanks for that link to Taipan Newsletter, hopefully the Taipans will be able to maintain the fervour. Like you as long as people are getting out sailing and enjoying it, its all good, doesn't matter what they are sailing.

As for the Collabrative Cat Association, Victorian Mosquito Catamaran Asociation has been inviting other classes to join them at State Titles for years, some of the classes that have been involved are, Windrush, Dolphin and Arrows, with Arrows still joining Mossies last March. Also National Titles have been held in States with low Mossie numbers combined with classes like Maricats.

2 years ago the Taipans asked the Mossies if they could join them at Nationals, but it was considered the numbers would be too large as with Vipers etc. Fleet would have been over 70 cats, too many for a lot of clubs. So as you can see a lot of this has been going on, but a name hasn't been put to it.