Guest Posted June 21, 2013 Share Posted June 21, 2013 Notorious will be supporting and entering this great race. Not only will we enjoy the fantastic scenery, challenging conditions and competitors who have a crack at beating us - but also support a new event for NZ ocean racing. The fact that Southland has credited solid financial support behind this race is good enough for this boat. Notorious is sponsored by FRENZ who services the dairy farm industry and many Southland farms. We challenge each boat to take a Southlander home! Do we have enough southern men (or women) to populate a sailing fleet with at least one on each yacht? Once there - just think of the cruising potential in mid February - unbeatable! Link to post Share on other sites
Pugwash 0 Posted June 21, 2013 Share Posted June 21, 2013 I'm up for that and put myself forward as a willing crew. I can fly north and work my passage back. Link to post Share on other sites
Brooker 0 Posted June 22, 2013 Share Posted June 22, 2013 What sailing fleet......... The article in the latest trade a boat says that environment southland has pulled out of its $ 180K contribution for infrastructure costs and it seems the mayor Tim Shadbolt is scrambling to make this happen. They might as well give up on this dumb idea now. And if you you wanna go cruising in February, whats wrong with the Mercs, Barrier, BOI, Far North, I bet ya it's warmer. Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted June 22, 2013 Share Posted June 22, 2013 The fact that Environment Southland hasn't committed is now irrelevant as the invercargill City Council has now committed addditional funding to 380,000 k which means that the Central Government Commitment is still intact.... local feelings are very mixed with some ratepayers abosulutely aghast that the city has committed budgeted and latterly unbudgeted reserve funds to the project. Went to a public information evening the other night and in some spots it was downright hostile for the organisers/ promoters/ owners. Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted June 22, 2013 Share Posted June 22, 2013 The negativity surrounding this race blows me away. Firstly as a sailor I do not want to take anything away from Southland or the taxpayer. Money is scarce and a yacht race that goes beyond the Barrier and the BOI would a great adventure and challenge for any sailor, man or woman. Cruising to Stewart Island and around Fjordland after the race would simply be legendary as would be circumnavigating NZ. Why is that so difficult to see and understand? There will always be people who have a problem with throwing money at Yachting. Others who support funding towards yachting will moan about where the money goes - if its not where they think it should go. There will always be debate around funding towards sports. Debate is good but should not stop decisions on funding - we would all loose. I have been to Southland many times and found the Southern hospitality legendary. Sure some people will not like the $$ spent on the event - but others will. My suggestion to take a southlander home is exactly about engaging the sl community with this race. For Each person on the boats the will be a team of supporters in Southland. Why not make a difference and support rather being a moaner? I am sure there is plenty that could be done better but lets start it first. I would love to see this race to promote and unite NZ. Link to post Share on other sites
Jon 355 Posted June 22, 2013 Share Posted June 22, 2013 Yes you can do it that way Or you could do it the way SSANZ did it last year, Take nothing, leave plenty Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted June 22, 2013 Share Posted June 22, 2013 Yes you can do it that wayOr you could do it the way SSANZ did it last year, Take nothing, leave plenty different mission different goals. I am 100% behind SSANZ - but this is about something else. Link to post Share on other sites
PaulR 3 Posted June 22, 2013 Share Posted June 22, 2013 My suggestion to take a southlander home is exactly about engaging the sl community with this race. For Each person on the boats the will be a team of supporters in Southland. A very GOOD suggestion, IMHO. It will add a lot of interest for the locals in Southland. The smaller cities and towns in NZ seem to always have more "local" focus in their news and radio stations. It is quite different to the Auckland scene simply because we are so many diverse people and so spread out. Any issues locally say within 5km from ones' home, are generally of no concern to those living 20 to 35km who never go to that suburb anyway. By contrast, Invercargill city is concentrated within a relatively small CBD area with a compact grid street system. Link to post Share on other sites
Steve Pope 243 Posted June 22, 2013 Share Posted June 22, 2013 Is there going to be a cruising Division?? Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted June 23, 2013 Share Posted June 23, 2013 Is there going to be a cruising Division?? I would say there are at least 3 already in the cruising divi http://www.a2b-race.com/race-details/online-entry/ Vingilot, Notorious, Bavaria 56 Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted June 23, 2013 Share Posted June 23, 2013 Yes you can do it that wayOr you could do it the way SSANZ did it last year, Take nothing, leave plenty different mission different goals. I am 100% behind SSANZ - but this is about something else. Maybe, but what are those goals? Build a Marina at Bluff, local council put some in Government put lots in, all in the name of yachting? Some film maker getting some sailing footage? Sure there may be a few cruiser racers who would enjoy a stay in Bluff and a lesurly cruise back up from there, the beautiful sounds and so on, but will that suit any of the racing fraturnity? I thought this was going to be a race, not some cruising rally? And if YNZ was concerned about the "off shore race fleets", surely they would have talked to the Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch, Napier, Tauranga, Gisborne ........ race fleets, and maybe designed a RNZ or RNI style race that included the active racing home ports? Is there a big "offshore racing fleet" in Bluff? There is only one or two race boats expressed intrest to date, and one has been misled that "all the NZ race fleet would be there". I think it is a pitty that energy and potential resorce has been put into an unlikely bet, when with forsight and promotion, barges and big marques, there could have been a carnival that maybe stopped two or three or even four times and which would have been patronised by 20-30 local race boats with maybe a hand full of genuine overseas race boats too? Time will tell! Link to post Share on other sites
Blast Reaching 0 Posted August 4, 2013 Share Posted August 4, 2013 Campbell Live covered a2b on Friday 2nd Aout. http://www.tv3.co.nz/tabid/3692/MCat/2908/Default.aspx (15.44 then ad break then story) They could at least fence the ragged parts of the wharf off. A true visionary would suggest the next Ams Cup for Foveaux Strait with wave piercing trimarans......... Link to post Share on other sites
Brooker 0 Posted August 4, 2013 Share Posted August 4, 2013 Quite an interesting article really Still a really dumb idea tho Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted August 4, 2013 Share Posted August 4, 2013 After spending time in Bluff coming back from down Antartica why would you go there. We had 50knot sw one day leaving there, and that was a good day. Link to post Share on other sites
Brooker 0 Posted September 2, 2013 Share Posted September 2, 2013 Just Wondering - have they given up on this dumb idea yet???? OR are they still dreaming of getting some sort of fleet to the start line. Obviously its not going to happen at all, such a shame to see money ear marked for promotion of a yacht race wasted on a dream. when it could have been used to develop existing races in NZ. Link to post Share on other sites
rigger 47 Posted September 2, 2013 Share Posted September 2, 2013 http://www.a2b-race.com/race-details/online-entry/ Link to post Share on other sites
Brooker 0 Posted September 2, 2013 Share Posted September 2, 2013 C'mon we all know that there is a big differance between EOI and actual entries. Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted September 3, 2013 Share Posted September 3, 2013 Notorious is no longer in it - we're in the RNI race instead. We would have done tis one but no guarantees that it was going ahead so going for a "character builder" Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted September 3, 2013 Share Posted September 3, 2013 Word on the street is that the A2B has been cancelled. Media release latter this week...... Bit of a shame, however I never really thought they would get the numbers required to support a big race like this. Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted September 3, 2013 Share Posted September 3, 2013 Word on the street is that the A2B has been cancelled. Media release latter this week...... Bit of a shame, however I never really thought they would get the numbers required to support a big race like this. Link to post Share on other sites
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