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Sail-World.com : Fisher's View: Busy doin' nothing
Fisher's View: Busy doin' nothing
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Bob Fisher
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For one who is 'trying to find lots of things not to do,' Valencia is ideal, particularly if yacht racing is on the agenda.
Each day passes without wind and little promise of it. The official forecast from ACM for Tuesday was: 'Warmer and less cloud, but less wind.' Any less and the heavens will have to suck.
There have now been just three of the twenty-two flights sailed and there are nineteen outstanding and there are fourteen days and two reserve days left. Betting that there will be no racing on Tuesday ('less wind'), it will mean that to complete the two rounds robin, there will need to be perfect conditions to have the eight round robin 1 races over in four days and leave nine days and the two reserve days to have one race per day.
That scenario would be pushing luck to the extreme and thus the race committee will have to schedule two races a day in round robin 2 in case there is a repeat of the current situation. No one envies Peter Reggio and Harold Bennett the jobs they have to do and their situation is made worse by the refusal of ACM to change the scheduling.
OK, there is the little matter of television scheduling, but that has already gone to hell in a hand-basket and one cannot help wondering what the television companies have said to ACM. Most of it would be unprintable, judging by what they have had to put up with thus far.
And there is also corporate hospitality with its pre-booked flights and hotels; not that the guests are seeing anything that would linger in their memories, and one feels sorry for the 'celebrities' that have been brought in for the ride in the 18th man seat. Theirs has been a dull and uncomfortable time, but they are booked throughout the Cup summer.
No one in their right mind would hold a regatta at a venue out of season, and no one has ever ventured to hold a regatta in Valencia in April, at least not according to a local sailor who is working for one of the superpower syndicates in an advisory capacity.
I would have given many euros to listen in to the telephone conversation between Luna Rossa’s Patrizio Bertelli and Alinghi’s Ernesto Bertarelli. I am assured the copper wire in the telephone wires was glowing. The head of Prada is a very unhappy man because of the present situation.
Meanwhile, the absence of racing allows some to indulge in exploration that most tourists would eschew. The port area that surrounds the America’s Cup harbour still maintains some of its past and many of the sights and sounds are not to be missed. There’s a cafeteria/bar called Bestia, just across the road from the back of the Emirates Team New Zealand base (but there is a long walk to the security exits) where . . . but that is another story for another day. I’ll try to find things not to do.
by Bob Fisher
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7:31 PM Mon 23 Apr 2007 GMT
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