Big job ahead but Armel Tripon is having a ball on his Sam Manuard Imoca scow. How lucky are we: amid the tsunami of cancellations the world’s premier offshore race is on schedule. Just as well, this Vendée Globe is the biggest thing to happen in sailing for years and offers much more interest – especially technical interest – than an America’s Cup that, as with every new Cup class, is likely to be ‘over’ in the first leg of the Match
to pop down for a few weeks, they just won’t come. There were going to be over 100 superyachts here in Kiwi land over the summer for the event. Many being refitted while they were here. Most, like the J-Boats, have or are in the process of cancelling that idea now. The sponsorship for the event in Auckland was sold on billions of dollars of economic impact. Billions! With only three challengers, and possibly severely limited fans, media and tourists, the impact will be a fraction of the forecast. Experience teaches us ‘things are never as good or as bad as experts forecast’.
For the city of Auckland (the biggest sponsor) would the America’s Cup give a better return a year from now? Or better the smaller financial impact sooner? My take is that the AC show will continue as scheduled and be a scaled-down version of what was planned. And that will be the best solution under the circumstances. Damn that fog!
What about The Ocean Race (formerly the Volvo and before that the Whitbread), due to start in 14 months? Long before that the teams need to attract the money from sponsors to even make the startline. Lots and lots of money. It’s all about the timing – whether you’re robbing a bank or asking for money, timing is everything! Would a 12-month postponement help the timing? Hmmm… not sure. Big calls are having to be made – the truth is every one of us is making our own big calls after being pushed by someone else’s call from above.
So much fog. Not much chance of it lifting any time soon. So courses will have to be charted and decisions made on the best information available. Keep an eye out, lads, for those self-interest reefs – they can be nasty.
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