Point well taken, that's not at all what I meant.

I don't have a problem with the comptip rule, and don't want to see anyone in MORE danger, but let's face it, Hobies are not the only beach cats, but are the only ones with comptips (oh yeah, before someone else brings it up, except for Tigers).

If the point is simply to lower the bar to get more Youths sailing, we may need to be creative.

I don't like the idea of spending money to upgrade old boats, if for no other reason than you're upgrading someone's personal property, and you may never see them again.

How's this for an idea: Create a pool of Youth boats within each Division, get some double-stack trailers and have fleet commodores, youth leaders, etc. bring them to the regattas with their boats. Any youth that we can get to the water will then have a boat to use.

Mike