Mary, Simon, Harper and all,
We love our sport, and just want to go-like-heck and have fun.
It started with the Rolex notice of race. This says 6 boats make a class. We had 9 non spin beach cats enter and that make a class. Eventually, 3 spin cats showed, not enough to make a class. LAst year there were 2 classes.
A verbal was agreed to, one week before, that the less-than-6 class had 2 choices;
1. have their own class with trophies but no Rolex,or
2. join in the non spin class (leaving the spin on shore).

Then, come the night before the start, the RC changed position, ignored the requests of the majority, said one class and dissolved the non spin beach cat class ( that abided with the NOR).
We just wanted the same rights as the monohull racers. This would never had been considered with the monohulls.
Mary, you mean, under Portsmouth, the beach cats can sail against J-24's and such? That might be interesting.
For example, a non spin P19MX has the same number as a F-18 spin cat ( Tiger, N-18, Inter-18),..I just cannot see the rating working in cases like that....do you?

regards,
Bruce
St. Croix