If you dont like the way a regatta is run, pull the organizers aside during or after the event and talk to them about it. Call them. Explain your reasons why, offer examples, or better yet, offer to help the next year.

To come out on a public forum and bitch, and in my opinion your bitching, and to publicly question the integrity of someone who has devoted so much to catamaran sailing demonstrates a complete lack of class to me.

Our regatta, the JPOR has used the old starting sequence for years. I hate it, but our PRO has been the PRO for like 20 something years. EVERY year he is dependable and shows up. I hope someday he tries the new system, but as long as he is willing to VOLUNTEER his time year after year, Im good with whatever he wants to do.

And to complain about the cold and your lack of preperation for the elements at an event is completely shameful.

Im sorry Matt, I enjoyed talking to you in the Keys, but it drives me nuts when people complain publicly about others that volunteer their time.