Anyone who tells it like it is ,isn't going to be liked. I wouldn't call them a joke over that fact.Do you think Ted Turner was a joke? Why should it matter whether they are "well respected in the upper echelon of the sailing community". If they've got the desire and the money, let 'em sail.
Personally I think an SA challenge is exactly what the AC needs,to make it interesting. The protocol is the joke.
"I said, now, I said ,pay attention boy!"
The cure for anything is salt water - sweat, tears, or the sea
Isak Dinesen
If a man is to be obsessed by something.... I suppose a boat is as good as anything... perhaps a bit better than most.
E. B. White
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