Boy you guys are trying hard to pick a fight.

Look, we didn't tell anybody they couldn't sail in the handicap fleet and most, if not all of us, still go racing under handicap if there's not a enough boats for a "class". My point is both our one design and handicap fleet racing showed a reduction this past year so to go "ninny ninny boo boo" because two one-design series saw a decline in the past year and attempt to point the finger at one design fleets is just silly.

We've been running races the same way they've been run here for decades except that this year our scheduling, by globing several regattas one after the other to try and stay in traditionally windy periods of the year, wasn't all that well thought out (and we probably have too many events). I can point out other glaring external factors why things were on the decline but I'm not even going to bother. Every catamaran sailor is welcome and has always been welcome at our regional regattas. We'll always make fleets and/or accommodations to score them fairly and help them in any way possible regardless of whether or not they are sailing on a random boat or a strong one-design boat.

Weren't we talking about the weaknesses in handicap systems anyway?