Yellow and grey boats have been seen all over the world and usually at the front of the fleet. So when Corum Watches promised the team half the budget for a Whitbread project, there shouldn't really have been any problems finding the rest. But it didn't work out that way. Gelluseau and his friend Pierre Mas realised it wasn't going to happen for them this time and started looking at other projects. Looking at the big picture of sponsorship in sailing over dinner one night they started questioning what went wrong with their case and why they had failed to find the money.
Big money comes with catchy ploys.
Mas and Gelluseau continued their conversation late into the night and deep into several bottles of Bordeaux. But one thing for sure, they are all a lot younger than us. It is the youth of today who will make those decisions tomorrow. These are the people we have to influence. These are the people.