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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…
Sailing number 3 in Europe?Oct28
- By Mark Turner in Sailing stuff,
Well, not a bad little article to kick off this blog…a report showing that Sailing in Europe, in sponsorship dollars terms, is only smaller than Football and F1. Not sure where this blog is going to go, but I’d like when there is a spare minute to just share some unofficial thoughts on the world we live and work in - whether its to do with sport of sailing, adventure, or how the hell we do all we do in a more sustainable way.
Not sure how good the actual report is as they seemed to have missed the point on some things (think about the IMOCA fleet, its got over 100 million Euros of deals signed on the boat project side on its own in 2006/7, so the event sponsorships are pretty small in comparison). Anyway check it out at
http://www.ibinews.com/ibinews/newsdesk/20070925162005ibinews.html