The list of sailors to compete in the C-Class I4C is an amazing list. It will be great to see Glenn Ashby and Lars Guck back on the same race course again. The willingness of Steve and Fred to share their knowledge and their boats in hopes of creating a great event and one the brings excitement to the sailing community while growing the class is to be commended. I do hope that The Daily Sail is able to cover this event. I know that you usually work the Europe circuits, but this event is changing and growing with each passing day. Thanks, Tom Siders
This event is going to look very bizarre. . . after 3 days of X40 fleet madness, Cowes Green is going to be gifted with the spectacle of a 2-boat round the island race in 20-year old designs with heavy displacement hulls.
"And here they come, coming up the green. . . still coming. . . a bit further up the green. . . and now they're on the green, just very slightly further up" etc.
And the breaking news is that Ashby and Spithill are racing the Little America's Cup the 3rd week in Aug in Newport. Should make that match race quite interesting and exciting. Go LAC!
thats nasty! shame about the penalty though, you'd of thought being damaged and getting stuck was enough wouldn't you? good luck for the rest of the event.
Anyone else think it might be a good thing if BO stopped tw*tting about and got on with answering the rather important questions of 1. when and 2. what for the next AC?
With immortal words of Michael Palin from monty Python's Life of Brian: Damn do good-ers...
But now honestly, does anyone buys that PR nonsense about promoting EU when you see a bunch of shrewd businessmen backed by the russian gas giant?!?
Defender Trials: “….to win the Defender Trials, and to win the Match representing GGYC.”
With this clause the defender appears to be “printing more boats”. They will have a range to choose from over and above the two their own team is allowed to build. This creates another set of challenger trails on the defender side, but with only one winner: GGYC. Are these “other teams with experience” going to be allowed to represent their own yacht clubs if they beat GGYC. It would appear from the above that they are not. So GGYC in effect could have a limitless number of boats in it’s line up, coordinated in order to cover a range of options. In addition, they can waste sail cards for boats that aren’t going to make it, developing sail options for the ones that do. Yes this has happened in the past between challengers after elimination (American Challengers swapped in gear to DC in 1987 after they had been eliminated). But to my knowledge this hasn’t occurred before via such a loophole. It’s effectively unlimited resource for the richest national challenger.
Shades of Bill Koch/America Cubed?
Has anyone else made the connection? BP CEO Tony Heywood may have come in for criticism for going yachting this weekend in the middle of one of the worst ever man-made environmental disasters, menwhile BP Chairman Carl-Henric Svanberg is another man with a passion for our sport - he was CEO of ASSA ABLOY and then Ericsson when they sponsored boats in the Volvo Ocean Race....
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