Personally I like the way they schedule regattas.

It seems to go like this:
Local/Area Wide Regatta: Weekend
Regional: 3 Day
National: Week long.

The Nationals being a week gives people a chance to drive on the weekends to the regatta. Most Nationals that I attend are at least a full days drive from my house. So if you did a Fri-Mon regatta then I would be gone Thur-Tues and that is 4 days of work. Really not much different that 5 days and much nicer to have the weekends on either side of the regatta.

What I don't understand is why some Nationals have a 4 day regatta instead of a 5 day. I'd much prefer a relaxed 5 day schedule so that we have room for make up days if there is no wind or too much wind for one of the days. It sucks going to a nationals and getting 7 races in. I've done this at quite a few Nationals.

Mike Hill
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