Don't laugh, Berny and Bob, We have done just that in the past, ie given away cats just to get them represented interstate. In 1981 we gave a 4.4 Alpha Omega to Bob Lawrence in NSW (a top international sailor on many classes of cats, notably NACRAS, Tornado's and early on a national champion on windrush's) on the condition that he campaigned it "vigourlessly" in NSW ( he actually sold about thirty boats for us from that cat). and we also gave a 4.3 Sundance to a top Windrush sailor in Victoria for the same reasons with similar results in 1981. We gave two 5m Sundances to sailors in NSW in 1980, one at Kurnell and the other at Litho in the blue mountains, and all of them payed for themselves many times over.
Darryl J Barrett.