martynwhiteley
Active member
ROUND BRITAIN MBC BURGEE CHALLENGE 2004
How’s this for a grand idea?
(For charity, publicity, or just the hell of it!)
The aim is to circumnavigate GB (most likely using the Caledonian cop-out, in true ‘Round Britain Power Boat Race’ fashion), with an MBC Burgee, using as many forum regulars as possible to partake in its relay-race style journey.
The said burgee would be accompanied on its route by a digital camera and a logbook. Daily records of progress and relevant photos of current locality/forum members involved could be posted. Perhaps a specific forum could be established.
The experience and progress should prove news worthy to MBM/MBY etc.
We would need to be sure sufficient forum members were interested and available, particularly to cover the more remote Scottish sections.
‘Handover ceremonies’ could provide a good excuse for forum members to get together in various locations. No doubt the Southern sector would be split up into quite short sections due to number of available participants, but the Northern areas would obviously require some pretty dedicated sailing from a small minority.
Due to the number of Thames based members, it could be appropriate to start and end the journey well up river, and later events could even see the Burgee getting special day trips down the likes of Windermere and Loch Lomond as appropriate coastal locations are reached.
A final ‘awards’ event could be timed to coincide with LBS 2005 (or SBS 2004 if progress was swift!) to present ‘trophies’ for the fasted average speed over a section, the slowest, the bravest… etc. etc. (Then we could hand it over to the Med guys for 2005!)
Is there enough interest/potential support to make this idea worth developing?
<hr width=100% size=1><font color=blue>Oh well, maybe next weekend....</font color=blue>
How’s this for a grand idea?
(For charity, publicity, or just the hell of it!)
The aim is to circumnavigate GB (most likely using the Caledonian cop-out, in true ‘Round Britain Power Boat Race’ fashion), with an MBC Burgee, using as many forum regulars as possible to partake in its relay-race style journey.
The said burgee would be accompanied on its route by a digital camera and a logbook. Daily records of progress and relevant photos of current locality/forum members involved could be posted. Perhaps a specific forum could be established.
The experience and progress should prove news worthy to MBM/MBY etc.
We would need to be sure sufficient forum members were interested and available, particularly to cover the more remote Scottish sections.
‘Handover ceremonies’ could provide a good excuse for forum members to get together in various locations. No doubt the Southern sector would be split up into quite short sections due to number of available participants, but the Northern areas would obviously require some pretty dedicated sailing from a small minority.
Due to the number of Thames based members, it could be appropriate to start and end the journey well up river, and later events could even see the Burgee getting special day trips down the likes of Windermere and Loch Lomond as appropriate coastal locations are reached.
A final ‘awards’ event could be timed to coincide with LBS 2005 (or SBS 2004 if progress was swift!) to present ‘trophies’ for the fasted average speed over a section, the slowest, the bravest… etc. etc. (Then we could hand it over to the Med guys for 2005!)
Is there enough interest/potential support to make this idea worth developing?
<hr width=100% size=1><font color=blue>Oh well, maybe next weekend....</font color=blue>
