Once again, I get the advice - forget reaching during races, just buy a spinnaker.

I have a perfectly good catamaran, that is fast upwind, a blast on a reach, and tactically challenging downwind. I don't need a spinnaker to be happy when I race, I just need some reaches once in a while. What the spinnaker boats experience downwind, we experience on a reach. Don't take away the reaches, then turn around & say the solution is to buy new hardware & a sail, or a new boat. The solution is to put reaches back into race courses. This is certainly fair, for handicap racing, since that is how the handicaps are derived.