Congratulations to Glen, Steve and the entire Australian effort. It was also great to see Randy come in the top 10. As far as promotion and coverage of these events go, some of the issue is definately those who are racing are promoting and reporting on the event. At the end of a days racing, the last thing a racer really wants to do is to sit down, write a race report and then get it circulating through different media and online sailing sites. What worked great during the 2007 Ronstan A-cat Worlds was that you had people who were not racing pushing the coverage of the event. One of the key individuals was Brian Hawbolt who was on the RC boat along with many other on site individuals who assisted in gathering information.. He would write up the daily race synopsis pass it on to another person who gathered more information from the racers on the water and then the race report would be written. It was then sent to an individual who sent it out daily to every sailing site that could be found. Those reports ended up being published worldwide on sites from SA to Sail World, The Daily Sail and many more. This worked because it did not require those who were racing to stop to take the time to get the information together and distributed. There were of course some glitches, such as hearsay and personal opinions published that should not have been, but overall the coverage was better then what has happened since that event. Maybe prior to the next major event, that process can be looked at, changed to get more and better race reports and modified to better support and promote the class.

Last edited by windswept; 07/03/10 11:41 AM.

Tom Siders
A-Cat USA-79
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