There has been some discussion for next year's Worrell 1000 to score each leg as if it were a race in a regatta. For example, if you were 20th in the first leg, 2nd in the next and 4th in the next, your total point score would be 26.
With all of the boat being scored in this manner, it would give those teams that had some sort of mini-disaster a chance to make a comeback. As it is now, once a team falls behind in time, it is difficult or impossible to ever make that time up again. And it may have only been one small incident that caused that big time lag.
Witness the fate of Rick Bliss and Sandra Tartaglino on Team Rudee's Restaurant. They dismasted and turtled. With help from other teams, they managed to get the boat to shore and jury rig the boat to make the finish before qualification time, but in the process they are literally out of the running – just sailing for the challenge of it.
With the regatta scoring plan, they would have a bad race, but they wouldn't be out of the running.
Michael Worrell said, "A lot of people don't know it, but I have been thinking that way for long time."
One sailor commented that there should still be an award for the overall best time and most people would agree to that.
Additionally, A really nice perpetual trophy should be sought for winners – something that offers some semblance of immortality. After all, this is tough race for tough sailors – they deserve something like that. Perhaps it could be named the Carlton Tucker Memorial Trophy.