It appears that a lot of (*#$_)@#( has come down in the Nor Cal PHRF world, in fact, racing in general, since I kind of stopped in 2008.
Now I have to go get my boat weighed, as well, in order to get a PHRF certificate? This "weighing" activity will cost around $200? And if I change out my batteries or some damn thing, I'll have to do it AGAIN? It used to cost $75 for a certificate, I'm sure that's been pumped up to well over $100 by now. I think that maybe we're all being $200-to-death, here. Two hundred here, two hundred there, two hundred for another radio beacon, two hundred for another safety item, it's just two hundred dollars, no big deal, right? Except that sooner or later it adds up to real money. Somebody said that once, before, right? I dunno, do I WANT to get back into this?
BTW, not that I have any say in it, but I REVOLT at the notion of having a "doublehanded division" in the SHTP. I might actually show up at a meeting and shout myself blue in the face, should that obscene idea get any credence, whatsoever.
1968 Selmer Series 9 B-flat and A clarinets
1962 Buesher "Aristocrat" tenor saxophone
Piper One Design 24, Hull #35; "Alpha"