Several of you are echoing what I eluded to earlier: the only way this stops is if it isn't tolerated by the general group. Whiners need to be stopped in their tracks. Sadly, what tends to happen is that people who weren't even at the regatta chime in, and the whiners get rewarded.

No one is perfect, we've all had bad things happen, and those of us who care always think about those things that went poorly and try to ensure those mistakes aren't repeated. Some of us file for redress on behalf of sailors that we beleive were affected.

What some sailors tend to forget is that they aren't perfect either, otherwise they'd be winning every regatta with a 1 for a throwout.

Mike