Gone Too Farr retired for the day, completed repairs overnight, borrowing a pushpit from Atalanti, and were racing on Sunday. Again, inflicting serious damage. There were countless other collisions and minor contacts throughout the regatta. Maybe the class should consider a rule similar to the sled's, where, if there is contact, at least one of the boats will be disqualified. Also, some of the drivers, and tactitions, should be more sportsmanlike, and retire after clearly fouling and causing serious damage to another boat.
Sailing already has some terrific production partnerships in place.
Two that immediately spring to mind are Andrew Preece Productions and Airwaves Media. Then there's Watersports World which goes out to 42 countries and which devotes at least a third of its programming to sailing. The series provides sailing news, onboard footage, interviews and Virtual Spectator graphics. Those production teams which are involved in producing sailing footage and commentary for broadcast on our national and regional networks are working very hard to make the sport of sailing, and yacht racing in particular, more accessible and more entertaining for the viewers. As is the case with sailing commentator Richard Simmonds, the enthusiastic and knowledgeable delivery of the commentary was, and is, so vital- knowing when to let the action speak for itself.