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Poll Question: Who will win the 2017 endeavour
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    Posted: 19 Oct 17 at 4:48pm
A website with live streaming gps tracking would have been great.. Not difficult to implement either.

Edited by elzorillo - 19 Oct 17 at 4:49pm
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Originally posted by elzorillo

A website with live streaming gps tracking would have been great.. Not difficult to implement either.

And not too expensive either
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Post Options Post Options   Quote Guests Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 20 Oct 17 at 7:43am
It would help raise the prestige and profile of the event if the RYA recognised and promoted it in an official capacity as a Champions of Champions event. As it is, it's just a regional club hosting an invitational event, so can't blame the press for not paying to cover it.  
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The America'a cup is a private event, too, but gets plenty of coverage!

Does the Bloody Mary get more coverage? That is the other long running event of the winter that seems to generate plenty of interest even from people not going, where the RYA aren't really involved overtly.
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Post Options Post Options   Quote Guests Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 20 Oct 17 at 8:28am
I doubt the RYA would recognise it. Olympic class national ranking events, youth nationals and regional junior champs a is what they hold highest (or a sailing world cup event if they can get one back to the UK). Promoting a event which pulled champions from a wide variety of boats would go against their corporate message that Olympics is the pinnacle. 

The event  has prestige; what it lacks is visibility. 

 
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Post Options Post Options   Quote Guests Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 20 Oct 17 at 10:35am
As the organisation responsible for the management and promotion of our sport, surely the RYA could/should take some role in increasing its visibility?  I know that doesn't fit with what the RYA think their role is but, quite frankly, they are wrong. The Ian Walker interview in the latest Y&Y is encouraging though.  
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Post Options Post Options   Quote Guests Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 20 Oct 17 at 10:38am
Originally posted by Rupert

The America'a cup is a private event, too, but gets plenty of coverage!

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Actually the AC is one of World Sailing's 'special events'.  Perhaps the RYA could have a list of similarly supported national events.
 


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Originally posted by A2Z

It would help raise the prestige and profile of the event if the RYA recognised and promoted it in an official capacity as a Champions of Champions event.  

But why would the average RYA member want the RYA to recognise and promote it? And indeed what would the RYA recognising and promoting it really do? A few paragraphs on the RYA web site? So what!

And would the RCYC really want the RYA sticking their nose in to their event?
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Post Options Post Options   Quote Guests Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 20 Oct 17 at 11:11am
The difficulty is that the RYA is not a national mirror of World Sailing (thank heavens you may say). WS is solely concerned with the sporting side of sailing, whereas the RYA also has a (self declared) remit to include cruisers and motorised boats. But the RYA is the national organising body for the sport of sailboat racing, and as such it's members have a right to expect them to provide some sort of structured racing calendar of official events. Much like the FA host the FA Cup.  As such the RYA could send journalists to cover the event seeing as no media outlets do.  
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Oh please ... don't reference the FA as any sort of best practice ...
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