You are exactly right about the standardization issue. If people can expect the same systems and procedures at all multi regattas, then they are more likely to travel to ones they have never been to before. That is what made the "Hobie Way of Life" so successful.

NAMSA can serve the same purpose for ALL multis.



P.S.

I still don't understand why so many mono regattas use homemade course designations when the official USSail system is numbers, like ours. It is a royal pain in the butt to attend one of these and have to memorize some bizarre system.