I have to agree with Mark here. It is an unreasonable sail to the race course. Thursday we were just dead after doing three long races and we had to sail 13 miles upwind (making it more like 20 miles) to get back. Imagine doing this every day in addition to doing three 1+ hour races.

Also the business about having the official notice board at the sailing center was ridicolous as nobody would be able to check it. We were supposed to be able to check it online, but the site crashed the first day.

If you listen to feedback from the sailors you would not hear a whole lot of positive comments. Most europeans would not come back if it was not a grade 1 event.

PU did a great job and usually seems to save our butt by making sure we don't sail outside since we have no crash boats (against 'official' wishes). Our coach boat ended up being the pin boat most of the week because the boat assigned did not know how to set an anchor.

I have to say that this event could be a great one, but certainly for the Tornados it falls short.