Really, I do – because it worked out so much better that I’d ever dreamed of when I first thought about taking Evenstar up to watch the racing in Boston. Although it was sad to scuttle our plans when I realized the boat was no where near ready, sometimes things happen for a reason.
What I did was talk to my friends over at Sailing Anarchy and ended up being sent, along with my “Media Assistant” (who also happened to be my son) as a member of the Sailing Anarchy press team. But not just a reporters on a photo boat – Will and I got to take a ride on Telefonica Blue, one of the Volvo 70 race boats in the practice race on the Friday of that weekend. Then we spent Saturday watching the races from the deck of Meteor, a 170 foot privately owned schooner which was the Puma Ocean Racing VIP fan boat. A spectacular weekend, though Puma didn’t fare so well our new best friends on Telefonica Blue swept the races.
Here is the article as it was published on the front page of Sailing Anarchy earlier this week with the full story.
This may have been one of the coolest racing related weekends ever.
Telefonica Blue skipper Bouwe Bekking shows my media assistant a thing or two about driving a Volvo 70 as bowman Pepe Ribes looks on.
Some Video from Friday…new camera, so it’s a bit shaky and I haven’t figured out how to edit yet:
Mark Rounding
Spinnaker Take Down
Practice Start
Telefonica Blue finishes the first race of the day – in first place.
Telefonica Blue winning the start of race number two, and eventually the whole second race as well.
