I understand the poll question to be more general -- about how cash prizes would affect sailboat racing in events at all levels. It is not necessarily about the Worrell 1000, although the announcement about the cash purse for 2004 obviously precipitated the question and most of you may be voting in the poll based on only that one particular event.

Personally, I am more interested in the wider ramifications and the potential of a trickle-down effect to smaller events. I wonder if some people's opinions would be different if they were thinking in terms of the Delray Drag or the New England 100 or the Key Largo Steeplechase or the Round the Island, Tybee 500, The Great Texas, etc.