Here's a couple of suggestions for the next contest: 1) Madate that all crew on board be citizens of the country their boat represents. I think it's absurd to require that the boat be constructed entirely in country, but allow teams to shop the world for crew. 2) Require the defender to guarantee a purchase of at least $1,000,000.00 of television advertising across whatever networks/stations broadcast the race live nationwide. Assuming a LV Cup runoff, require each challenger to similarly buy $500,000.00 of TV advertising and the winner to kick in an additional $500,000.00. Maybe then we could get at least one channel to cover it.
I would like to see the helm and half of the rest of the crew be from in country. Strict CIC.
After watching on the net to hell with TV. No commercials every 5 minutes. The ability to play it back at will. Watch when you want. I want to be able to see everything unfiltered. We could chose the feed (commentators) we listened to. The camera work was good. I wish they would have shown more from the starboard side of USA-17 on that reach. Could you imagine sitting on that ama just in front of the board on the reach. Wahoo! To that I hate EB even more for not allowing cameras on board. We were denied so much by that move.....but I digress.
