Living in a perfect world

What if there was an owner-driven class of dual-purpose racer/ cruisers between 41 and 45 feet that maintains identical sets of sails that must be used for their one-design events? You’d think that the arms race was over, that the inmates had returned control of the asylum to the warden, and a perfect world was restored. That would, of course, be what you thought before waking up from your dream. Or maybe Dorothy was wrong, and we are in Kansas after all. Or rather, living amid the J/44 class. Having the benefit of a membership largely based in the Northeast, the J/44 sailors organize a regional one-design race schedule that includes Long Island Sound and Newport, RI. They maintain and periodically upgrade 16 sets of identical sails that are rotated from regatta to regatta so that in the one-design events, which are all owner-driven, the boats are pretty much dead even. No arms race, no measurement discrepancies, just sailing… in a perfect world.