Mark,

That's not an easy question - it appeared that the race management attention was first to the beach during the race but this seemed to be in conflict to their pre-race strict one design racing philosophy. During the awards ceremony they did break out the I20 and N6.0 classes but on the beach during the starts, they did not. Starting positions were awarded based on your overall, mixed class, finish the day before and a second row start automatically received a one minute penalty (so I was told). If it were strict one design, why wouldn't the 6.0's have an independent push off? Realistically, from our viewpoint, the boat capabilities are so similar that we (on an I20) considered passing a 6.0 as an accomplishment and as such we were considering it as a first to the beach race. We gauged our current-day success based on where we started the following day and tried to equal or better each time out.