Sam-

I agree with you NAMSA should essentially divest itself of handicaps IF we want to cont. w/ PN. However, I DO think NAMSA could go far towards improving handicap racing by:

*NO, NO, NO. Maybe I wasn't clear enough. NAMSA should have nothing, zero, nada, nix, zip, to do with endorsing, recommending, administering or enforcing ANY handicap system. They all have existing organizations to administer them and it is the resposibility of regatta organizers to use them correctly.

1) Resurrecting the old "Monterrey Multihull Classic" type regatta where the manufacturers/classes get to provide ONE boat each and then everybody races (Could break down into relatively comparable groups if desired). For new boats this could be very valuable for setting handicap numbers and for "evolving" classes it could help "adjust" the numbers as well as serve as a "check" for the current numbers

*No it wouldn't. Factories would bring "hired guns" and classes would bring whoever. Hardly a fair comparison. The Portsmouth works because it is based upon numbers from many races with many different kinds of racers.