Olympic Classes for 2012

Costs of a 4 year campaign 470 Vs Tornado

Based on a person who has campaigned both (470 World Champion 1995, 2002 and Tornado European Champion 2007, 2008): Kostas Trigonis

Net cost 470 120, 200
Net cost Tornado 77,020

Costs of a one design Tornado would obvious be less than this.

Summary Table                                 470                               Tornado

Campaign Costs                       140.200 €           ;                    109.020 €
Resale proceeds                        20.000 €           ;                     32.000 €
Net Cost                                   120.200 €                           77.020 €


4 Years Campaign Costs Quantity Unit Price Total Quantity Unit Price Total

                                                         470                                        Tornado
Boats 4 -one per year     17000 68.000 €                        2 boats  22500 45.000 €
Sails Sets 5 per year        1700 34.000 €           ;            2 per year 4500 36.000 €
Extra spinnakers 3 per year 1500 6.000 €           ;                                          0
Extra jibs 3 per year              350 4.200 €                                                     0
Rudder-centerboards  4 sets 1500 6.000 €           ;                  2 sets 2250 4.500 €
Spare Masts 4           ;           ; 1500 6.000 €                         2 masts 3300 6.600 €
Ropes- Gear- Hardware 4 sets 4000 16.000  €           ;            1 set   1500 1.500 €
Spare Beams                                     0                           4 beams 1500 6.000 €
Trampoline                                         0                      4 trampolines 330 1.320 €
Battens                                               0                              2 batterns 300 600 €
Spinnaker poles complete                    0                            3 poles 1500 4.500 €
Miscellaneous Spares                         0                                 1 set 3000 3.000 €

Total                                            140.200 €                                     109.020 €

Resale Value

Maximum                                          6.000€                                      18.000 €
Minimum                                         5.000 €           ;                             16.000 €

Notes

Based Olympic Campaigns 1996, 2000, 2004 in 470 and 2008 in Tornado
* 470 World Champion 1995,2002 ; Tornado European Champion 2007,2008
1. Transportation Costs excluded, because identical, owing transport
COMPARATIVE

I think things will be much clearer on Friday.

http://www.tornado.org/


Edited by Jon Emmett

haha jon, there is no way that a tornado campaign is cheaper! What about the sail developement budget (or did you forget to put that in). 470's are not cheap to campaign but then nothing is!

hoping the tornado takes the 49er spot for the 2012 games?

Sail development, coaching, accommodation and logistical costs etc have been excluded because they where identical for this specific campaign.

As far as possible the table is a like for like comparison compiled by Kostas Trigonis (not myself).

The figures are based on a Sailor who has sailed 470 and Tornado at the highest possible level.

There will be no sail development costs for the one design Tornado.

The hope is the 11th event (Catamaran) will be confirmed next month.

Referring back a few posts ago about youth sailing worlds I think I saw somewhere on the isaf site that there is a proposal that 420's and 29'ers will both be included which makes much more sense to me.

Originally posted by Nick Peters as (we had been told) further trials would be held where new products or significant mods to existing classes would be considered alongside others for the high performance slot. How wrong and mis-informed we were.

It certainly certainly doesn't smell of cedarwood and frankincense... I've just been through the papers and worked out how it happened, but I still don't see how the 29erXX can qualify under ISAF regulations. It seems that to have got on the November list a class had to be on the submissions to the May conference, and all classes that were in commissions are in the list that can be selected from, even when, like the catamarans, there's no event left they can be selected for (at the moment anyway).

But Council will have to change a whole load of regulations to permit selecting a Class that isn't International, recognised or has been recommended by trials, and I do't think such changes are on the Agenda. If the XX does get through someone must have been doing some mightily effective lobbying...