Atlantic coast conditions came to Menorca for this year’s TP52 Worlds and allowed today’s premier Grand Prix class to strut its stuff with considerable panache. Meanwhile, the absence of gear failures in Menorca suggests that perhaps these ultra refined box-rulers are not as fragile as many believe. Maybe it’s time to include a decent over-nighter next year… (only kidding)
number of pro teams, say between six and 15 depending on class and event, as well as to fill key positions in mixed pro/amateur programmes.
Of course individual teams then try to keep the same crew as much as possible for continuity, but even at Super Series level it is rare to train or test with the full team for more than one extra regatta and possibly another four or five days outside the Super Series events and their official training days. To introduce new and inexperienced crew into such an equation, no matter how keen and talented, has a low priority.
In the long term this situation, of course, has no future and needs some proper thinking through by all involved… or the pool will steadily dry out. Besides that, demand gets bigger as the market in superyacht racing is still growing. Rates go up and the pressure on regatta scheduling increases. Suddenly the bottom of the pool is very often in sight.
The owner, as always, has a special position in this. It is his or her hobby and a hobby can be stopped at any moment if it is no longer fun – without any major consequences for the hobbyist. But owners care for their sport and many are in it ‘for life’. Some run their sailing team as a business but most experiment with organ- isational variations they would not contemplate in the office. Once the plan is to be in sailing for a long time, synergy, the creation of a team greater than the sum of its parts, becomes important and then it is only a small step to acknowledge the need for training young sailors and giving them the opportunity to experience serious racing. ‘May you build a ladder to the stars, it will help you stay forever young… (With apologies to the maestro.)
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