All posts for November, 2007
Napkins!!!Nov15
- By Mark Turner in Sustainability,
Just how often do you get given the single paper napkin that you need in a cafe or takeaway…how stupid is that we get given handfulls every time, I’ve had between 3 and 10 this week each time I’ve bought something. Its the same everywhere! What a waste!!!
They are off…Nov14
- By Mark Turner in Sailing stuff,
An exhausting few weeks for the team…both OC Events and our Spanish partners at the FNO in Barcelona. But what a great result! Fantastic pre-race week in a great village setup, and a simply awesome start day with levels of pontoon emotion like a Vendée, and a full-on scary start day out on the water…stunning images, great way to set off, and for a first edition something really special. Now we are in the daily process of improving all our systems for real, website, images, animations, etc…the list is endless…its nice to have 3 months ahead though of continual improvement -thats great with a rtw race, unlike the short, sharp transatlantics… Great to be in Barcelona, sunny most days, but working English times to start the day, and Spanish ones to finish, the days are a bit long…
Creating a new event…Nov02
- By Mark Turner in Sailing stuff,
Don’t ever think creating a new event is easy…man, what a fight for more than 3 years now to get to the startline of the Barcelona World Race. One day I’ll write a book about all these crazy projects of the last 10 years of OC. Today the official village of the event opened, with a visit from the Mayor. Sunshine, good crowds, an excellent smart setup for the VIP and Media centre…its a pretty cool setup. Am pretty sure we are all happier here this week in the sun, than in a grey northern french town! After 3 years of struggles though to get this new event established, its very rewarding for all the team of people from Barcelona and from OC Events to see a great line up of full on IMOCA 60s, and a set of skippers with 36 round the worlds between them, experience from Volvo to Vendee, America’s Cup to Olympics. Its got a long way to go, but its not a bad start to the very first Barcelona World Race. Just don’t ask me to create something that big and new again for a little while please…