I think it can be very scary having boats of widely different speeds on the same course. That's why I don't like to race my Wave in multi-class regattas. I feel like a tractor on a freeway. When those spinnaker boats are flying downwind, if I can't see the people on their boat, I figure they can't see me, either. When one of them is coming straight at me, I usually just stop my boat to let them go by and try to figure out which way to jump if they hit me.

I like the way Rick sets up the courses for Tradewinds because it greatly reduces the interactions between the slow boats and the fast boats.