Good Advice Eric. Most of the boats in this area are Hobie 16s, with a reasonable number of 17s and Miracles. I don't want to sail any of those boats for the previously stated reasons. There used to be a number of local 18 squares but they are gone now. With the changes from HobieCat company WRT regattas being hobie only, my regatta choices are pretty much limited to local fleet events, plus CRAC (I've never sailed in any crac events except Down the Bay a couple times, and the Chesapeake 100 with Jamie Diamond, but they seemed to have a nice variety of boats and seemed to be a good bunch of folks--but that was several years ago).

My rambling point is that whatever I end up with is going to be an oddball so perhaps a "presence" is not really a consideration after all!

Rick