You are exactly right about the standardization issue. If people can expect the same systems and procedures at all multi regattas, then they are more likely to travel to ones they have never been to before. That is what made the "Hobie Way of Life" so successful.

NAMSA can serve the same purpose for ALL multis.



P.S.

I still don't understand why so many mono regattas use homemade course designations when the official USSail system is numbers, like ours. It is a royal pain in the butt to attend one of these and have to memorize some bizarre system.

Sam



I agree with you about the USSA sail system or really the lack of use of it. Maybe we can by affiliation (Namsa, USSA, ISAF, other classes (both mono and multi)). Help these clubs adopt the standardized system.



However, there are alot of places where the water depth is questionable and they run around channel markers instead of courses due to that limitation. Its a deep keel thing.



Steve

I wasn't talking about using channel markers, that I understand.

I am talking about triangular courses

I have been to old Yacht clubs which use things like "O" for Olympic course, "MO" for Modified Olympic course, and even one which uses multiple verticle letters, "W""L""W""L" for windward-leeward-windward-leeward, "W""R""L" for windward-reaching-leeward.

Sam,



That is also in part what I was talking about. Sorry for not being clear in my last post. After getting throught the days work. Email and posts are not always the best way to convey ones thoughts.



Steve