Who here would be interested in a regatta in the Philippines in Jan of 2015? It would be a bring your own boat so we would need to organize a container from a couple different locations. We could make it a 4 or 5 day race with both bouy and distance racing.
If I'm going to ship my boat overseas it's going to be for Worlds and if not Worlds then St Barts. Unless of course it's some kind all expenses paid jackpot regatta.
Sailing in the Philippines sounds like a blast but I'm with Dave on this. If not Worlds or St. Barts then it'd be Round Texel or the Archipelago Raid. My rough budget puts an overseas 7 day race at $14K including a new set of sails for the boat, weather you charter or ship your boat it all comes out the same.
wow. that's more than Timbo's crack habit
And mine.
The reason catacup works is because we don't really pay for much. The regatta organizers do an amazing job of finding sponsors to defray the costs to the competitors. Each hotel donates some rooms, rental car agencies donate cars, shipping companies ship the container for free and so forth. This is a HUGE undertaking that I don't believe would be possible many places besides an island with such an amazing group of people behind this regatta, interested parties in sponsoring it and etc. St. Barths comes together to host lots of events like this.
It's around 12K just to ship a container back and forth in the U.S. not going to be cheap to ship one to the Philipines and back.
That being said, if you could make it cost next to nothing it might make sense. But who's gonna do all the work?
Something else to think about, catacup started small, like 20 boats or something 4 or 5 years ago. Mostly euro boats and a few from the islands. There are now around 10 F18s on St. Barths, a few on St. Martin, and more on neighboring Islands that come for the event. But obviously the majority is euros and a few from the U.S. there were 3 or 4 containers this year.
The Resort I am working at is wanting to set up something here in a couple years when all the construction is complete. It is just a beautiful place and the sailing is great. Guess we will work out more details when the work here is done and can focus more on future plans.
The budget we are looking at is about $8000 per team with shipping, food, acomodations, airfare ect. all included. That is at 2 to a room if you go 4 to a room it would be $500 less per team.
That is figuring for a 3 week stay here if you stay less it would be cheaper, my air fare was $1900 and my cottage is about $12.00 a night and food is $12 per day. This is for basic cottage and some go for up to 5 times as much with hot water, all day electricity, air conditioning ect. Also food can be considerably more and Rum is cheap, beer is also. $1.10 beers at most places and you can buy a whole bottle of rum for less than $5.00.
Rich,
you are asking bloggers to sail. try asking sailors to sail. he, he!
Start by getting a smaller regatta off the ground and as they say. if you build it they will come!
Get some outsiders to charter and run a fun regatta and more will show and maybe ship their own boat.
Dray
I am only helping the guy running things to generate interest. If this happens I will be there it was to good a venue not to go back to. There are only 4 F-18's that we know of on the island they are all there at that resort. I'd love to see this happen but have no skin in the game.
Rich