Editorial

The cancellation of this summer’s Admiral’s Cup was followed by choruses of ‘I told you so’. Most were ill informed, none helpful.

Certainly, mistakes were made in the past by the event’s organisers. But the Admiral’s Cup has ultimately fallen victim not to poor local decision making, but to the fact that the underlying fleets upon which it depends for its necessarily expensive survival have disappeared.
There have been numerous arguments over rating system, choice of boats and the format of the Admiral’s Cup – especially the contentious question of the Fastnet. In the main these issues have been secondary, paddling to stay afloat as the stream carries you out to sea. And in the case of the format issue, among those of us who took part in the revised event of 1999, I can remember little but favourable comment upon the new compact regatta.
The real problem is that.....

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