SO YOU WENT TO K.I. ON A SAIL BOARD???????
I always thought that the person(s) who did that was/were immediately locked away at Glenside (a hospital for the intellectually challenged)?? After that, sailing Altered must seem a little "tame"? You didn't own/work in a sailboard shop here in Adelaide at that time by any chance did you?
Any way, back to the point-to-point races. The reasons that I mentioned the "classic" races is that they are all held on the lower reaches of the Murray river (the closest point of sailing at any major regattas in SA to Victoria) and the percentages of ALWAYS getting the race finished on the allocated day is excellent - I don't remember there ever being an abandoned race or for that matter a race that wasn't sailed on the scheduled day. There has only been one day to my memory that there was a lot of "carnage" and that was the first ever race of the Goolwa to Milang where there were forty knot gusts from astern where the channel opens out into Lake Alexandrina - but that was an anomaly that has not occurred again, and even with those extreme conditions over 98% of the starters still finished that race. The lakes and river are probably the most reliable areas at which to schedule a yacht race and almost be able to guarantee that the race will be run. There is also the added attraction that there will be very good representation from ALL classes of multihulls with some of the best sailors in Australia regularly attending, a good place to fly the flag for the F16 over here?