Veteran status at nationals

We also have the option to do average laps on a Sunday for the PY banded fleets. When we brought it in we thought it would massively cut down on the hanging around between races. But actually, the PY bands were already narrow enough that most boats finished within 10 minutes of each other anyway, so you'd have to be doing more than 6 laps to make average lapping any better. Of course it's a little more random who's waiting for who, rather than faster boats systematically getting less racing time. Plus, the fleets like the option of using courses that wouldn't work with average laps. 

Average laps does put some restrictions on the racing though. All laps must be the same, and the race has to finish where it starts. Lap times have to be shorter than the gaps would otherwise be at the end of the race, so that means shorter laps, which means a more crowed race area. You can only shorten where you started. And you have to count laps. 

Plus, I think very few club actually run average laps as the de-facto option. Its very restrictive. Most of the racing at most clubs I've been a member of have split in to PY banded fleets with separate starts and sometimes separate courses / laps.