One, two or more of a kind racing

Does this still exist anywhere?

In times gone by, around this time of year we used to have events to which class associations were invited to send one or more representatives for a batttle of the classes.

However cold and unpleasant the sailing was for the reps, the rest of us were treated to some excellent entertainment, meeting-up and drinking opportunities. We could witness frantically planing Lasers being gobbled up on the reach by 18 Foot Skiffs, and see if the latest incarnation of the Int 14, with still more trapezes, could yet beat a Fireball  (I'm going back a bit there).

Perhaps first and best known of these was the Burnham Icicle, but this seems to have been demoted to mere class racing for MPS's . Then there was the Draycote Silver Salvers, which featured several of each kind and gave a better, averaged comparison of the classes. But, and correct me if I'm wrong, these one-or-more-of-a-kind events seem no longer to take place?

Sure, we still have the Bloody Mary and the Grafham GP, but the class representation at these is patchy, with loads of reps from some classes and few or none of others. We also have the Boat Show pursuit race, but the tower-block-surrounded swimming pool in which that's held precludes its being taken seriously .

So what happened to the 'x'-of-a-kind races, and why is nobody running them today? Maybe they required too much organisation - invitations to be sent out etc., but surely that is easier now everyone has e-mail? Personally, I'd like the RYA to drip a little of its resources into something like this for the benefit of the masses (and, after all, they have the contacts etc. already) rather than spending its last drop on the elite...