TO withdrawal and useless Y&Y coverage

Originally posted by blueboy Maybe. On the other hand they worked together on the 1851 reprise event at Cowes Week into which it appears both TO and BMWO poured considerable money and effort.

But it wasn't very interesting though was it?
From Cowes, you could just about see the sails in the far distance. Live coverage on the net was not much better with some vid feed of them sailing along, but the most 'interesting' bit was the virtual spectator, which at least showed who was in front - but why would you want to watch someone elses 2 hour video game?
And a restart 'cos one boat got in front, in an attempt to make it look better when they got back to Cowes

Just compare with the  X40's racing just off the beach... ( and on the beach in one case   )

Originally posted by Doug.H ...over any kind of "I love the sound of my own voice" opinions being flouted around.

After all we have people like me on forums for that...

Originally posted by Gael Quite simply; the story broke as we were printing the magazine, most of the pages were already at the printers, hence there was nothing in the main magazine, the news pages were finished but pulled them back to  put a brief story on last minute - perhaps we should have flagged it as such, but it was either that or ignore it until the following issue... unfortunately deadlines don't always fall in the most convenient place!

So that was the excuse for last month. And this month we also have....nothing. There's two pages from Bob Fisher telling us all about the local politics of San Francisco, which he appears to find fascinating, but absolutely no comment on the fact that the British aren't going to be there.