Hello all,

I'm a member of LCSC and the organisor of the A Class State Titles there at Easter. Perhaps I can answer some of the questions reaised above about the regatta. Firstly, it would be wonderful to see some Mozzies attend. The club had many sailing there in their heyday of the seventies and eighties, including being the home club of a former national champion - Andy Duffield. Vic Collett, another National Champion was also a regular visitor.
The A Class States will be run on the same course but with separate starts from the Alboats. We will also have 8 heats with the general fleet having 5. The difference being we'll have back to backs on the three afternoons. So please leave some rum for us in the bar as we'll be getting back later than you!
The A's will have separate results from the Alboats.
As mentioned above, it's easy to convert all results for the general fleet to one common base even though they are radically different speeds and doing a different number of laps. TopYacht simply calculates an elapsed time per lap and then converts to a base of 4 laps and applies the appropriate yardstick. We've been using this sytem for a wide range of cats and monoslugs every week for a number of years and it seems to work well. I disagree with the comment about monoslugs and multis on VYC. We do plenty of sailing in just such circumstances and the good sailors who are at the pointy end of their fleet in national and state titles tend to do well in club races as well, regardless of the type of boat they are sailing. I'd say if the monoslugs won a past regatta it was because they were the better sailors. Remember that no yardstick will compensate for a well tuned boat and skillfull crew against an older boat with inexperienced crew.
Anyway, I reckon leave all this aside - winning would be a bonus - it's a great place to sail, plenty of boats to sail with, good tucker at the club, plenty of Bundy and like minded conversation.
Come up and say hello - I'm on an Ashby Geltek Flyer II hull number 20.

Cheers
John Dowling