Interesting and I do agree with what you say, but the racing scene is very fragile and the minute something comes out of kilter whether that be your drinking buddies no longer want to come out to play because they have 3 rugrats or their boat no longer excites them, then that one catalyst can cause quite a ripple in a very small pond.

I think the SCHRS issue with us was just a very small issue which should have been resolved with the amount of discussion that has been going on for some time with the SCHRS technical committee in the back ground. But that one issue then focused everyone in the fleet to actually ask whether they wanted to continue sailing or not. They voted with their feet and took the easy option of moving on ( yes I too was guilty ).

Is there a moral to this story, not really, lifes to short to over duly worry about these things and the new class I joined is a real steep and interesting learning curve.

I am wondering as this has edged so far off topic whether we should move it to a thread all of its own ?