Another note about weather.

A year or so ago a regatta organizer was wondering whether he should cancel his event because, as of two days before, the weather forecast was so incredibly awful that it was obvious they were not going to be able to sail. He did not want people to have to take the time and money to drive all the way to the regatta, when it was preordained that there would be no racing.

What do you think a regatta organizer should do in these circumstances? It was certainly not a hurricane, but predictions were for big wind and big seas and big surf and no way to sail or even get off the beach.

What should he have done? Should he have tried to postpone or cancel or move the venue or what? Since the event had been on everyone's schedule for a long time, how would you let everybody know at the last minute that it was postponed, canceled or moved? Or should he have just let it be? -- Whatever happens happens. There is no way to get in contact with everybody. I know we have been at regattas where there was not a single race -- either because of too much wind or too little wind.

And what do you do when people come to the regatta and refuse to register and pay until they know whether there is going to be an event?

And what do you do when people have already paid and the weather is prohibitive and they want their money back?

And if there is no sailboat racing, how do you entertain people for the weekend so they feel as though their trip to the venue was not in vain.

These are the kinds of questions and problems that some regatta organizers face.