Just a few comments.

With respect to the rules. Hey... its the game... if you are not playing by the rules... why bother playing. Blustering about this or that and declaring screw the rules is just childish. Please go home and don't play with the other kids.

Bob and Scooby's point is that in regattas with very different kinds of boats... AND a WIDE RANGE of skipper experience... Everyone has to think a few steps ahead.

The older H16 sailor probably had NO IDEA what was going to happen to him on the port layline in a race course without an offset and spin boats on the course. He probably did not remember this circumstance being so bad in the past when he raced. Many at the event are not up to speed reacting to situations.... They need some coaching before they head out to the race course... Why have the damn skippers meeting if you are not going to offer some training for those out of practice or new to the game.

Perhaps you don't... but I WANT that older sailor to bring his boat out for the first time in years and keep on playing the game.... to me... its a failure of all the sailors at the regatta if this fellow quits because of a situation on the water.

Would somebody be screaming on the water if it were a couple of kids out there on the 16?