good question. change simply happened for practical reasons. the potomac coach (ie our coach) is out here now and we have two other womens doubles in our training group as well as some other boats from philadelphia here. long beach was more receptive to hosting a big group than newport. so we went to newport first since we were the only ones out here because i had easy access to a home stay. now, that the coach and other boats are out we had to go to the place that was accepting of all. both places are great. newport had longer water and just more of it. however, it also had more boat traffic it seems. long beach has better water, but less of it. weight/erg room is slightly newer and nicer at lbra, but weight room at newport was bigger and more functional.
