All posts for May, 2009
It doesn’t get much more complicated, but its cool!May15
- By Mark Turner in Sailing stuff,
Venice as a venue for opening iShares Cup match…Gilles and the team have done a great job to make this one happen. Shipping everything in by barge (don’t forget no cars in Venice), having the main harbour entry closed down for 3 hours a day to all traffic so that we can race, and a little bit of Italian spice thrown in…great work guys. The level of competition is as high as we could hope for - from BMW Oracle, to the legend of Peyron, to plenty of Olympic medals around the racecourse. This event has come a long way since Starnberg in 2006 (which wasn’t bad!).
Sailing fast in small places…May08
- By Mark Turner in Sailing stuff,
Well Gilles did a great job of organising that one - the iShares Cup launch on the River Seine in Paris - crazy small bit of water for high speed Extreme 40s - but it was fab! And what a line up we have for 2009, not sure how we could have a higher calibre and mix across the fleet. Venice is next week, kick off time - so lets see how they go! http://www.isharescup.com