Delta Lloyd 2014, Day 3: Images by Grenier & van der Borch
Great images by Sander van der Borch & Guilain Grenier / Delta Lloyd.
Guess what? There is a 100% chance that Besson or Cammas are leading… today is Billy & Marie Riou turn. Franck & Sophie de Turckheim in 2nd and Bundock-Curtis 3rd, a little bit behind but with the medal race pending the last day, nothing is defined yet.
Jeroen van Leeuwen is back to the arena , he is crewing for Renee Groenveld, the dutchs are 8th overall.
What happened with the rest of the local crews is beyond my inside info. I will try to get what is going on with the Dutch squad.
Official website www.deltalloydregatta.org
Full results at https://results.deltalloydregatta.org/
| Rank | Ctry | sail | Crew | R1 | R2 | R3 | R4 | R5 | R6 | R7 | R8 | R9 | Points | |
| 1 | FRA | FRA1 | BESSON Billy | RIOU Marie | 3 | 3 | 7 | 3 | 9 | 4 | 3 | -22 | 10 | 42 |
| 2 | FRA | FRA077 | CAMMAS Franck | deTURCKHEIM S | 6 | 6 | 3 | 10 | 1 | 1 | -19 | 16 | 2 | 45 |
| 3 | AUS | AUS064 | BUNDOCK Darren | CURTIS Nina | 7 | 15 | 1 | 5 | 3 | -19 | 16 | 1 | 4 | 52 |
| 4 | GBR | GBR2 | SAXTON Benjamin | DIAMOND Hannah | 8 | -25 | 18 | 1 | 4 | 7 | 5 | 4 | 20 | 67 |
| 5 | AUS | AUS133 | WATERHOUSE Jason | DARMANIN Lisa | 14 | -20 | 11 | 2 | 16 | 9 | 8 | 10 | 5 | 75 |
| 6 | GBR | GBR058 | WILSON Pippa | GIMSON John | 13 | 8 | 13 | 12 | 10 | 16 | 2 | 3 | -18 | 77 |
| 7 | FRA | FRA199 | PETITJEAN BACKES I | BACKES Olivier | 4 | 2 | 26 | -30 | 6 | 10 | 20 | 8 | 3 | 79 |
| 8 | NED | NED213 | GROENVELD Renee | KROL Steven | 1 | 14 | 8 | -22 | 7 | 14 | 10 | 14 | 17 | 85 |
| 9 | SUI | SUI041 | BUHLER Matias | BRUGGER Nathalie | (OCS) | 4 | 14 | 11 | 12 | 11 | 21 | 6 | 8 | 87 |
Great pics!
Here lies the problem. 40 year olds are the only people the can afford to sail these things. We are making sailing so expensive that soon no kids will be able to do it! If 20 Flying Phantoms are sold to legitimate owners, not Americas Cup teams I would be very, very surprised. C'mon Larry Ellison! If you really want to do something for sailing support a quest to get more kids sailing at grass route levels, not at the Youth America's Cup. Call me if you want to discuss. But if you want to talk about foils, cups, medals or wings don't bother.
A-Cats have always been expensive, so nothing to argue and nothing has changed in that aspect. I'm talking about current class sailors that feel outgamed by younger A-Cat sailors with more atheltic skills. Fact that have always been a factor with older equipment too.
AC: Coutts & Ellison have done the biggest promotion ever (coming from an ACup) and for the sport of sailing, specially for Multis.
The Youth Americas Cup was also a complete success. As an example it made a group of 29er youths here in Arg to invest what they didn´t had to be able to race the 45s at SF.
You need a pinnacle for kids to look up for. The same with Olympics, imagine what would have been the scenario with a 40yrs boat selected, instead of what we are seeing now. The N17s are currently the most spectacular Olympic Class.
Yep I agree the AC was great for sailing. Especially the multihull. Yes I agree the N17 is a great boat for the Olympics and is a success. Yes I agree the A is a great development class. I am also sure LE and the other cup teams/ sailors do, do there thing to support youth sailing. I fear it is ill-directed.
There are fewer and fewer multihull youths sailing. When I was in Europe 1/4 of the fleet was under 25. Now we are all late 30 or into our 40's. The older guys have either stopped sailing or retired! There is simply more people leaving sailing, especially multihulls than there is starting. And we are to blame.
Expensive, complicated boats, bureaucratic rules, and a delusional reality of the actual state of play.
To be honest it is getting to the point that we will all be high five-ing each on how great we are for developing such great boats that the people we are targeting to sail them cant afford to go near one! Oh well….. I can afford it. So now where is my credit card…..