Yes we all flew the class flag (yellow for our division, which was one of five). Last year we actually ran the race for them! They were out of volunteers and it was getting close to being cancelled when I agreed to be the P.R.O and assembled my own race committee, almost entirely composed of members from LICSA. That's why they "let us" race this year. There were no complaints and many, many other competitors came up to us at the mega-party and congratulated us and told us how nice it was to see us out there. I also know the owner of the boat in the article very well and he and I had no problems with each other out there, so I think we have made good progress in the public relations area. It just seems the press slams us once in a while...
