Ferrari don't organise motor races.

A lot of car clubs (Ferrari or otherwise) don't allow membership unless you own an example of their make of car and thus their events are exclusive of every other make. Some do, some don't.


As things get old, they wear out - Period! If you think (whatever) boat has better performance in terms of longevity and that is important to you, then go buy that one. This is not particular to boats.

If you are able to build a better mousetrap with the same or better performace and that also never wears out and can be retailed for similar money - go for it! (Let me market it for you for a small % of the profits )

Tiger Mike

Personally, I see things as growing in the sport of catsailing.
This past year we had excellent turnouts for all the regattas and races.
And I sailed more this year than ever before in my 46 years of sailing.
At Put-in-Bay YC this past summer we started with 5 Waves and sailed a weekday series and a weekend series, plus we held a round-robin Men's Day Regatta and a Women's Day Regatta (Free to get folks interested in sailing)
It worked.., it appears this coming summer we will have 10 boats and growing in our fleet.
When we came back to Key Largo, we discovered we already have 9 boats. And we are sailing regular series for midweek and weekend as we did up north.
It appears that many more are now interested in joining us.

Maybe the Wave is not your style, but they are quick to rig, easy to sail and make for darned even racing (nothing you can tweek to make the boat faster.., makes you rely on good starts, good mark roundings, good tacks and good tactics).
Rick

Rick:

We are getting at least a few newbie every weekend. I recommend every one try to take out at least 6 newbies a season, especially the youth.

Doug Snell
Hobie 17
www.tcdyc.com

At our sailing club in Key Largo we have series racing Thursdays and Saturdays with our Waves. For this current year we have committed to devoting one of our racing days each month to taking out youth sailors on our boats -- one youth per boat, with adult aboard, and putting the kids on the helm (maybe three races each day). It will be a separate series for the youth.

I will let you know whether this experiment works. Of course, Rick and I will be up in Ohio for the summer, so maybe we can try this same thing at our club at Put-in-Bay.

We have to start somewhere.