The "30 boat open regatta rule" seems excessively high to me. We don't all live in areas where there are large cat regattas. None of the normal cat regattas in Scotland get that many boats - 15 or 20 is more typical. There was only one race in Scotland in 2004 which got more than 30 entries (the Loch Ness Monster long distance race had 32) but even that wouldn't have qualified because only 27 boats raced. And it isn't an annual event.

I think this needs to be reviewed.

George Malloch
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