Priddy sponsorship

[BrendanS]

Well I knew Dom was sponsoring Priddy's latest epic adventure, but he's been busy on another site! No wonder we don't see him here anymore

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not only that, but he's coming over here for a party, with the Jolly Sailor laying on more sponsorship and booze, and he hasn't even let us know!

Tar and feathers would be too good for the little....

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[tcm]

Re: Oh heck

Well, this certainly captures the imagination. Instead of the boring rest of us going to work, year in, year out...our heroes are off on a trip on that yellow RIB, again.

At least we know that it won't be run on an underfunded basis, which didn't work out very well previously. This time, they have the proper backing in the form of sponsorship from a well-known er, pub.

All the best to them, anyway, sigh.

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[BrendanS]

Re: Oh heck

Ha! Just won a large bet with myself. Thank you. In fact two large bets. You'd be first to the Priddy bait. Second that you'd have some comments

I'll just go raid my wallet..... and pay myself /forums/images/icons/frown.gif

Anyway, funding this time is fine cos Soltron is principal sponsor, so gallons of champagne on board, and 5 star hotels and first class travel everywhere (apart from the rib bit).

Dom must have hammered out a good deal, cos apart from the record breaking bit, he's got them doing a good will snakeoil tour of the unpopulated parts of the Atlantic Ocean like those little French rocks that Dom lives on, and remote parts of Ireland

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[tcm]

Re: I Knew you\'d say that.

And the bet was for £20 quid wasn't it! Mind you, betting against yourself is a bit sad really.Next, time make it a £5,000 cos it is more satisfying. Or perhaps, gutting, depending on whether you see yourself as the punter or bookmaker

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[Happy1]

The debate gets interesting here <A target="_blank" HREF=http://ribworld.com/forum/showthread.php?s=f5ade6a541105603947bc7808f4bf23d&threadid=2204&perpage=10&pagenumber=6>http://ribworld.com/forum/showthread.php?s=f5ade6a541105603947bc7808f4bf23d&threadid=2204&perpage=10&pagenumber=6</A> Seems Priddy is upset by the competition in the new challenge, and bad mouthing them, but I saw that in him a year ago, others are just realising that it seems he is now a bitter and twisted old man, who failed in his last attempt, and now seeking attention at any opportunity /forums/images/icons/wink.gif all IMHO of course.

It is a shame that people can't support each other and accept that new challenges will be undertaken by others in the future, they are all having these adventures at the cost of you and I in the products that we use that sponsor them, just a shame they sometimes forget that there are so many others more capable and better than them who just unfortunately don't get the opportunities. It seems the challenge is in getting the sponsorship NOT the actual challenge, which is much safer than ever now with all the electronic gadgets and communication systems. It must be nice to have a life where enjoyment, challenges and experience are gained from kind hearted sponsors, but these people must remember that it is the likes of you and me who buy the product, who have helped them to get those experiences at our cost /forums/images/icons/wink.gif

I would be very careful spoutong off about my achievements if they have only come about by the goodwill of others. If your achievement is worthy, then it will promote itself, if you have to keep going on about it and reminding people, perhaps something is wrong, or it wasn't a challenge/record that the majority of people in the world had the slightest bit of interest in /forums/images/icons/wink.gif Again all IMHO.

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[Steve_D]

I have carefully read all of the posts in that thread and done some research on the background and I have to say that I consider Alan Priddy to have been very restrained Bear appears to have been a bit liberal with his PR.

I have met Alan and found him to be very pleasant and his talk was interesting.

Was he full of himself? not especially. It takes a certain type of person to have the balls and arrogance to do what he has done, but on the whole I found him to be quite balanced.

all IMHO of course /forums/images/icons/smile.gif /forums/images/icons/frown.gif /forums/images/icons/wink.gif

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[tcm]

Re: agreed re Priddy

Yes agreed. I have read a lot of AP's stuff and he seems a nice bloke. If he is saying he has been round the world in a rib - that's isn't being big-headed nor a show-off, merely fact. he has an opportunity to make a living from telling stories of the trip, or gaining more sponsorship from telling others of the trip, the difficulties etc and that's not showing off either.

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[Happy1]

Re: agreed re Priddy

I guess everyone has their opinions. I have not met him so will reserve any further comment, but there seem to be a number of people who are of the same opinion as me that he has perhaps got a bit bitter, shame really as what he has done does take guts, it would be sad if a few wrongly chosen comments about others were to cloud that, which it is starting to.

You also have to remember that there are brave people doing really brave things around the world every day of the year, with little or no recognition. Most of this bravery is saving the lives of others or like our troops fighting for our country (whether you agree or not they are doing the job we pay them for), puts a little bit of boating with all the help and gizmo's for self glory, sponsors and achievement into its true perspective really. 'Hollywood' springs to mind /forums/images/icons/wink.gif

Best to live and let live, all IMHO of course.

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[DepSol]

Sorry Guys I have been in a meeting all morning.

The Soltron Atlantic Challenge. Yes I put in the money for the title sponsorship, well I figured we had so much free coverage before that I might aswell put in a few quid and raise the profile. Unfortunately this was money put aside for other advertising in magazines but that will have to happen after this event.

I am always on here but have a sponsors duty to promote the Challenge. As the RIB.Net site is featuring this I do now have to spend some time over there. It is after all a RIB that is doing the challenge so what better place to host it although we will also have information on our new web site http://www.rib.net and information is available on http://www.Soltron.co.uk. IPC Media have been sent the press releases I am sure from both teams PR people and hopefully we might see updates on the IPC news section for both teams aswell.

If there are any questions I can answer please ask away.


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Now where is that Brendan hiding?

 

[DepSol]

Re: agreed re Priddy

“Most of this bravery is saving the lives of others or like our troops fighting for our country (whether you agree or not they are doing the job we pay them for), puts a little bit of boating with all the help and gizmo's for self glory, sponsors and achievement into its true perspective really. 'Hollywood' springs to mind”

As you say you have not met him and probably not spent the time to read up on what had happened to them on the RTW record attempt. Hollywood is far from what these guys experience as they are working flolk who make a living every day from jobs that they do. To live in a 8 x 6 foot box every day with two other people is no easy achievement especially for 3 months.

As for saving lives, I think you should do some ‘research’ as Alan and Clive certainly saved steve Lloyds life mid-Atlantic. If you read Confronting Poseidon you will see what I mean.

This is not an easy jaunt even if they do have GPS and better equipment. This is a dangerous and hard journey which will test each crew member to the limit. Think about it, look how much trouble you have had with your boating on the most basic of tasks. This boat is only a little over 10 foot longer than yours and they are going across the Atlantic passed Ice flows and weather you will probably never experience in your boating life time. These guys have been told by coastguards how good there boat handling is and that if they had trouble out there that even the coastguard would not have come out to rescue them.

Don’t just give him a hard time because you had problems on Rib.net. As I say both teams need our support.


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Now where is that Brendan hiding?

 

[sailbadthesinner]

Re: sorry it may be me

Dom
who is Bear?

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[DepSol]

Re: sorry it may be me

Who is Bear? Bear (Edward) Grylls, son of former Tory MP Sir Michael Grylls and previously the face of Sure for Men deodorant. He is the youngest Brit to survive Everest (that was on the ad) and is planning an Atlantic Crossing in a RIB. See <A target="_blank" HREF=http://www.arctic2003.com>http://www.arctic2003.com</A>

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Now where is that Brendan hiding?

 

[jhr]

More Bear

Think he'd also suffered some sort of serious spinal injury prior to climbing Everest. He wrote a book about the climb called Facing Up. Details <A target="_blank" HREF=http://www.panmacmillan.com/catalogue/default.html?is=0333782550>here</A>

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[DepSol]

Re: More Bear

As far as I know he injured his back in 3 places whilst serving with the TA. Seems ok now if it wasn’t then his current venture is not one to be doing. So it must be ok.

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Now where is that Brendan hiding?

 

[jfm]

Happy\'s economics

Cor blimey Happy, all that stuff about us paying for Priddy's trip by buying products of the sponsors, now that really is total bolx!

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[Happy1]

Re: Happy\'s economics

Sorry I am at a loss, where do you think sponsorship money comes from? Oh! sorry, it is a personal gift from the sponsor, nothing to do with profits from the vastly inflated price of goods that we get forced to buy through lack of competition /forums/images/icons/wink.gif

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[jfm]

Re: Happy\'s economics

The sponsorship money comes from the sponsors, who got that money from selling kit or from the normal capital markets. What you say could only be correct if there were a lack of competition in production and distribution of electronic kit. But there isn't. If ever there was a market open to competition with few barriers to entry, electronics is it.



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[plombier]

Re: Happy\'s economics

Happy, you are not forced to buy the equipment - you choose to buy it.

It is perfectly possible to operate a boat (sail or power) safetly without any form of expensive electronic gadgetry.

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