O Y S TER AND GS T AAD
Oyster and Gstaad Yacht Club... relationship reaches new peaks!
In March, Oyster CEO, David Tydeman, again led the ‘OYSTER-RORC’ team in the unique GYC annual Ski-Yachting event. Reaching the semi-fi nals the team enjoyed some great slalom skiing and match racing the 1-metre America’s Cup replica yachts donated to the Club by Alinghi/Ernesto Bertarelli.
T e event starts with a 1-kilometre intermediate slalom race, with 1st place going to the skier who has the least time diff erence between his or her fi rst and second runs. T e best this year was 1/100th of a second diff erence! Consistency not speed is rewarded therefore and the best times in each team are added together to give the team result. T e winning slalom team gets a bye to the quarterfi nals of the match racing, with others having to win through the earlier heats. 25 teams from yacht clubs around the world took part this year and this event is now at maximum capacity for the club so they are looking at expanding the idea and have off ered Oyster their own event – more details will follow soon.
Last year Oyster invited the winning team from the Société Nautique de Genève (SNG) to join us at the Oyster Regatta in Palma as part of the prizes for the Ski-Yachting. T is year David similarly extended an invitation again to the RYS team. T e SNG team reported back to their club and Swiss colleagues so favourably about the Palma experience, that as they were knocked
out in the early rounds this year, they asked David about buying an Oyster so they could continue to take part in our events!
Encouraged by this, we have signed up with Gstaad Yacht Club as an offi cial partner, alongside HSBC, C&N, Porsche, Porto Montenegro, and Mont Blanc. T rough this, Porto Montenegro has already extended some very favourable berthing terms for several Oyster yachts operating in that area and the Oyster team is now working with GYC and the other partners on extending services to all Oyster owners.
We have held various highly successful ski events in the past, both in the Alps and the US, and new ideas for an Oyster ski-weekend and other events with Gstaad are emerging. We hope to use this sort of partnership more and more to generate other peripheral extras that will come with owning an Oyster.
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