The recent e-mails addressing cold weather sailing and the difficulty the small teams with less money to spend and a lower level on commitment have in getting dry suits or even wet suits might be addressed. During the years I have been doing the scheduling, I have been encouraging the scheduling of northern events earlier in the fall and later in the spring. We have been somewhat successful in this regard. Additionally, with 8 teams able to host these events, we have an eight year cycle which, unless we adjust the current rotation, means that a sailor could sail every one of eight seasons and still not visit all of our biggest sailing sites during one of the major events. It has been discussed that we might rotate the War through the four southern hosts and the America through the four northern hosts. The argument against this the "home field advantage" the northern schools might have to get into the Nationals. Please see the attachment that chronicles the America events for the last ten years. The host didn't qualify for the Nationals 3 times, Only twice did the host win the America. The host qualified seven times. Not counting last year's expanded field, only seven teams have ever qualified during the last ten years and only one other team made the expanded field last year. So, how big and advantage is it being the host? Making this change would go far to reduce the need for dry suits for the small teams. In any case, we should structure our rotations in such a way that a sailor, using all eight seasons would sail at all major sites. Thoughts? Dan Winters, Scheduler
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