Hi Mark, You keep mentioning the system used at Cat Fight but OCRA has been scoring all their races using Portsmouth in three groups of Portsmouth ranges according to the boat mix that attends for eight years now. We score ANY and ALL beach cats that show up. The first several years we scored in groups that pretty closely put 16 footers, 18 footers, and 20 footers in separate groups. In the last two years with so many Waves and now Mystere 4.3s racing, the groups are usually 14 footers, 16s and 18s, and then all other lower rating boats (a real mix including Taipan 4.9s, Inter 17Rs, 18HTs, Nacra 6.0s, Inter 20s, etc.) Then we also score ALL boats against each other for an OVERALL ranking. This keeps the top guys in each class racing hard even if they have a big lead in their own group so that they can try to beat EVERY boat! It is a great way to welcome every sailor and boat type to the events and to increase participation. (check out the results on the website at sailocra.com) I feel certain that without this system beach cat racing in this area would have mostly gone the way of Hobie Divison Ten which fizzled out several years ago. With Sail Wave scoring now, it is fairly easy to separately score one designs out from all of the above scoring if that is the desire. Cat Fight does not do an overall score; missing out on that opportunity to compare different boat types. Maybe scoring was a legitimate reason not to offer the competitors more results like this in years past, but not anymore, even at big regattas. So Portsmouth only adds to a regatta's offerings and for not much more effort. Even if only different one designs attended an event, it would be interesting to also score it in Portsmouth so that they all could see how they were doing against every other boat as well as in their own classes. It is a great way to make any regatta "bigger" and better.