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…