The shape of things to come in Clyde Racing.
Could this be the shape of things to come? while most are just thinking about getting their boats sorted out for the season there has been one programme in full motion for some time. It’s odd just how much work it can take to put a new boat together but that’s just what’s been happening with this campaign. In a class where where you don’t get much change back out of £250k for a season’s campaign and would see most of us living in a tent at the end of it, this must be the thick end of sailing costs before it even hits the water.
It looks the business and even when you’re close smells fast too, more baby wipes than sand paper to smooth out this bottom anymore. There’s no doubt its going to be fast but just how fast? Well damn fast I would say, ‘there’s nothing camp about this’ said the cleaning lady in the shed.
Rumour has it that it’s going to be a sail training ship to introduce people straight into the sharp end of yacht racing? could be a steep mountain to climb but what an opportunity to experience big boat yacht racing, but and there is always a but, you will need a core team of “good guys” to hit the fast forward buttons and know where they are. All together a great project in the making.
The cleaning lady tells me that they have a top man in the marine industry project managing the boat till it hits the liqiud, and she tells me a crack core sailing team of dudes that have been round the block, some more than others she said but swore me to secrecy as the £2.40 per hour cash in hand no questions asked third job was Farr to good to lose.
Will keep you posted on this one.
