I think a friendly, and free, but official (advertised, permit if needed, etc) race for both wind surfers and kite surfers would be a neat event.

I would avoid mixing us in one race because lets face it, we have 3x as much sail area higher up, and no mast in our face, and no sail to pull out of the water when we fall ... too many differences to make it even.

But a joint event would be great...

Would have been cool if they could have been part of the tampa bay race... but I'm not sure how much fun winder surfers are going straight down wind.

Thank God for Wind