Venture Cup cancelled :(

No daily update today as the focus is solely on the final leg from St Tropez into Monte-Carlo. All four boats have made it and will assemble at 1100 (London) / 1200 (local) for a start within the following 30 minutes. Please use the 2 links in the post immediately above this one to follow the boats today and get the latest info
 
Lots more reports, pics and video to come ....but for now here's the four crews at Yacht Club de Monaco on Sunday having completed Venture '14
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Nick_H said:
Congratulations to all the teams, and to the organisers for putting this together after the dissapointment of having to cancel the race.
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+1 Plus a 'well done' on the great commentary - thoroughly enjoyed! :encouragement:

I actually think it's very important to the overall success and perhaps starting the forum/social media build up much earlier will help build the interest in a future Venture Cup? The mainstream media aren't very creative or visionary and only tend to cover such things when either their rivals do or in anticipation of problems! I think lots of build up/feeder events are key - hence original text of post - and hopefully this trip is just the start of that. :D
 
A blinking hard job exceptionally well done and magnificent editorial alongside. Shows what can be done, I hope it encourages or supports more; it seems commercial support would not fully fund such stuff, so it might stay "unofficial" but with experienced and responsible operations & participants we've seen here, that could change but if not, we've seen it can be made to work. And work well. Is there really that much difference between being a "participant" or a "competitor" when the achievement is secure, evidence in the bag? Nice one all, and thank you for showing us what can be done.
 
Nice comments there Gentlemanracer.
I guess as a potential competitor and an organiser of the original event it was all very disappointing indeed.
Many factors conspired to make the race a non starter and these included, but are not limited to:
Entrant apathy: probably because it was going to be a massive financial and also time commitment that few could afford.
Lack of sponsor funding for both the event and individual entrants: a function of the current financial climate and the perception of powerboat racing in general.
National Authority: too risk averse and too onerous in requirements.
Organisers: we were all part timers, doing it for the love, need to be better funded and more professional, full time and well connected.
Congratulations are due to Aidan and Alan for hanging in there and to the four teams who proved that it could be done.
Interesting to see the two approaches; two teams in hotels with land support, two living off their boats, largely unsupported.
We have a part built 55ft boat, now looking for somewhere to race it ...
It's probably too late to start thinking about next year's race/ event already !
 
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