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THE GROWTH OF CLASSIC YACHT RACING Bernard d’Alessandri Yacht Club de Monaco Peter Montgomery: Welcome. The rise and rise of classic yachts has been quite a phenomenon across the world and particularly here in the Mediterranean, it has been quite stunning with a magnificent fleet being added to year by year. It is my pleasure to introduce Bernard d’Alessandri, who is the Yacht Club de Monaco General Secretary. Bernard became General Secretary in 1990. He is passionate about classic yachts and Bernard is Founder of the Monaco Classic Yacht Week and the Prada Challenge for classic yachts. He regularly sails in the events as well. Last but not least, Bernard is President of the Monaco Sailing Federation. Ladies and gentlemen, Bernard d’Alessandri Applause Bernard d’Alessandri Thank you, Peter. First I would like to say thanks for coming and thanks to the organisers for organising this wonderful forum, which was a great idea to be here in Monaco. He continues in French, which is translated… I would like to take this opportunity to talk about the classic story, something, which happened just over a century ago. It is not by chance that the boats you are actually seeing on the screen remain good racing boats nowadays. The story began 25 years ago in Porto Cervo with a gathering of classic yachts. The race circuit started with Prada and now Panerai has taken over as the main sponsor for this race circuit of traditional boats. It is a great pleasure to see more and more boats joining these races and boats come from very very far, from New Zealand, the United States and an increasing number come and join us, which we are really really pleased about. On the economy side, it is very interesting for us to see that with places such as Cannes their summer and season in general continues with races and with such boats coming increases the economic power to the local towns on the Riviera. We are very happy to see about 300 different classic yachts during the season coming to the different events. We are quite proud to see the same owners and the same captains are coming to the events. This is how we are working to keep them to continue working with us. We are very proud of what it brings to us, which is a mixture of glamour and yachting personality coming and joining the races as well as the media coverage it brings to us to all the regattas that are taking place. We have seen small shipyards and specially local shipyards developing thanks to this business and boat restoration, which again is a great thing for the local businesses and there are quite a few in the Var county, which is the county, next to Monaco. We have seen with all these boats racing, safety becoming quite an issue and we have come in to put different ratings on these different boats in order to work on security while racing and during regattas. We have set up and developed an owners club and for all the skippers and captains of all these ships to come and join, called La Belle Classe, which is for all the classic yachts. We have been developing La Belle Classe and in the last 50 years around the Mediterranean, in Corsica and Italy and around the Riviera in order to agree on a charter for the different security issues which happen at regattas. We have got the agreement of the owners on three main points. One is the maritime heritage conservation. We also agreed on what we call a ‘naval maritime etiquette’ which basically involves people behaving like gentleman on their yachts, rather than what we have seen sometimes! The last point was – the very important point is that it is the sea, the environment we really want to preserve. Last but not least is the celebration next year of Monaco Classic Week and importantly the 100 th birthday of Tuiga, our flagship that you are welcome to come and see in the harbour. Thank you very much for your attention. Applause Peter Montgomery: Thank you, Bernard. Very interesting. Some of those boats look just as magnificent today as they did in days gone by. 47
WHAT IS THE FUTURE OF THE AMERICA’S CUP AFTER AC32? Panellists: Alessandra Pandarese Mascalzone Latino Sir Keith Mills Team Origin, Stephane Kandler K-Challenge Paul Cayard Desafio Espanol Tom Ehman BMW Oracle Racing Brad Butterworth Alinghi Peter Montgomery: Right we move now to the last session for this first day on this inaugural World Yacht Racing Forum and the subject ‘What is the future of the America’s Cup after AC32?’ It is my pleasure to invite the panel up here. And if I could invite first of all Paul Cayard and if we can invite Tom Ehman. I know Tom is here somewhere. I’ll introduce them all when they are here. Alessandra Pandarese, Stephane Kandler, here from the K-Challenge, and Sir Keith Mills, who we heard from earlier today. And Brad Butterworth, please. Right, going through that: We’ve got in the corner there Stephane. He is from the K-Challenge. He has been involved in the family business. And just to his left is Tom Ehman who has been involved in the America’s Cup for a very long time and, well, he ran the America’s Cup in 1992 and been a key player in America’s Cup. He is with BMW Oracle as their Chief of External Affairs and looking after and giving advice with rules and matters legal. And from Tom we have Paul Cayard. Well, that’s all that needs to be said really – he has been to six America’s Cup and as he touched on, he was the key player with Il Moro de Venezia and subsequently with AmericaOne and he’s just so, so experienced in the America’s Cup and has come a long long way since Tom [Blackaller] was involved in 1983. Then we have Alessandra Pandarese, who is a specialist in sports law, a highly qualified lawyer and she is an advisor to Mascalzone Latino. And then Sir Keith Mills, who is the head of TeamOrigin and then Brad Butterworth from Alinghi, who is the Skipper and CEO. Already there have been some comments, so I think what we’ll do is we’ll get a couple of comments that I will ask, first to Tom Ehman about some comments made earlier today. Tom you may want to comment on that and then comment on how we go there. And then we’ll hear from Brad and then, folks, we’ll open it up to you. I know I’ve been told about 300 times - a lot of people want to ask questions, that’s why we are getting into it. That’s why we’re not having an address. Greetings Tom. Just your reaction to any comments earlier today and/or how have we got to this situation in the America’s Cup as it is, from your perspective. Tom Ehman, ladies and gentlemen. Tom Ehman: Good afternoon everybody. Thank you for having us – on behalf of Larry Ellison and Russell Coutts. Russell would have been here today except he is down in Lanzarote racing in the RC44, as is Larry. I spoke with Russell this morning and he asked to give his regards to everybody. Sorry not to be here to defend 48
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CONCLUSION Pat Lilley Chairman, WYR
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Harald Thierer, Director, Match Rac
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