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Pat Lilley – Chairman World Yacht Racing Forum INTRODUCTION Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. My name is Pat Lilley and I’m the Chairman of the World Yacht Racing Forum and it’s my pleasure to welcome you all here this morning at the Grimaldi Centre. I hope you all had a good night’s sleep. I’d like to make special thanks actually to Goran Petersson, the Chairman of ISAF, who was stuck until about 10:30 last night in Stockholm. Thanks for all your efforts for coming, but I’d also extend that to all of you - a thank you for all your efforts to be here in this inaugural meeting. The concept of the meeting really is to be a forum, and during the course of the next two days we are going to have a number of keynote speakers all of whom are leaders in their field. The idea is for the Forum to be interactive and we will have specific time for you to have Q and A. I’d like the Forum to have the flavour of relaxed atmosphere, where you can make the contacts and also use them as much as you can, particularly in these difficult times. Before we get into the body of the meeting, we will be having a short video. Short video Applause Fortunately for you I don’t have to make a speech, but there are some notes from housekeeping: WiFi is available in the building. The code for that, not unusually, is WYRF, if you want to logon and use the WiFi that’s available. During the course of the Forum I’d ask please if you could ensure that your telephones are switched off, so as not to interrupt the speakers. There is no smoking in any part of the building and at all times you will have access to the Motorsport Forum, which is going on the other side. Access to that is via a small escalator – so if you want to go down there during the breaks, you are more than welcome. Lunch is served in the Forum so there is no reason for you to leave the building. We want to keep you in here, and that’s served, if you want it, over there with wine – not too much wine! There is a function this evening, called the Track and Motion party, which is where the two Forums will meet. That will be held in the Hotel Meridien and that’s at 6.30 pm this evening and if you please wear your passes, so that we can know that you are here. So as I say, I don’t have to make a speech. All I have to do is to welcome onto the Forum platform Peter Montgomery, P J Montgomery. 3
Peter is probably known to a lot of you as the ‘Voice of the America’s Cup’. He is a broadcaster, for which he received an MBE. He is a New Zealand Yachtsman of the Year and during the course of the Forum he is going to act as your presenter and master of ceremony, referee – call him what you like. Is PJ there please? Can I ask him to come forward? Thank you very much. Have a good Forum. Applause Peter Montgomery: Greetings, and good morning. It’s certainly a pleasure and an honour to be the referee/moderator/MC and we are looking forward to an enlightening two days. Its wonderful to see so many familiar faces, rather than old faces, but some of the people here I’ve known for a long time. Congratulations to the upstanding group who have put this Forum together. Next door is the fourth edition for Motorsport – the biggest names from Motorsport in the world are here and hopefully this first edition for the World Yacht Racing Forum also takes off as well and is as significant as what has happened in the last three years for Motorsport. One of the biggest assets that yachting has, and yachting racing has, is also one of its biggest challenges: so many classes, so many events. This diversity is sailing’s strength: from the hot competition of racing round the cans and dinghies to long distance ocean races to the contentment of cruising. But that is also a major challenge: to be able to harness the strength of sailing across the world and make it a force that we all know that it should be and that has attracted us. It is my pleasure to introduce the first speaker to set things off this morning: Sir Keith Mills who was Deputy Chairman of London 2012 for the Olympic Games. He is also Head of TeamOrigin the British America’s Cup Challenge. He is also a very keen amateur sailor and in 1999 was one of the crew that won the Clipper Round the World Race. Keith, along with Lord Coe, was responsible for developing the bid strategy and persuading the 159 I.O.C. members to give the honour to London 2012. Naturally Keith received an awful lot of credit and awards for that and even before that he was appointed International President C.E.O. of London 2012, the Company established for the bid for the Olympic Games. So we’ll start with Keith and we’ll also hear from him later on this afternoon when we talk America’s Cup. Ladies and Gentlemen: Sir Keith Mills. Photos courtesy of: KEYNOTE SPEECH Sir Keith Mills, Deputy Chairman of the 2012 Olympic Games, Team Principal of Team Origin. Good morning everyone to sunny Monte Carlo! The organisers did tell me last night that they were thinking of holding this inaugural Forum in the UK, but they didn’t think quite so many delegates would come to a sunny Gosport Holiday Inn Express. So we arrived here at Monte Carlo and, unfortunately, the weather in Monte Carlo is a bit like the weather in Gosport in the UK. So I think this is a very exciting, and hopefully regular, conference on our calendar. Everyone knows that the popularity and scale of yacht racing has grown enormously over the last 10 years. By any measure now it represents a major global sport and a major global business, so I am extremely pleased that the organisers have indeed decided that this now warrants a convention on this scale and I hope over the years it will grow. I would also like to say how pleased I am that I’ve been asked to make this first presentation at what I hope will be a regular Forum, because our sport needs Forums like this. Our sport, which we all enjoy, is going through an interesting phase of development and I think Forums like this should 4
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Nick Masson: It certainly seems the
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Paul - what do you think about that
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Alessandra Pandarese:. I would say
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KEYNOTE SPEECH Peter Gilmour What a
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hear that. But once you realise tha
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importantly we know the process of
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ASSESSING THE IMPACT OF SAILING EVE
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acing centres and we chose these. Y
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And the other thing - it has served
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very lucky to get, through the hard
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David Stubley: Well good morning ev
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in Paris is a 1.8 million Euros dir
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conferences, through education, to
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positive opportunity for our sport,
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- To maximise the sponsorship value
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higher than with live. Blue is the
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cities rather than companies themse
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prepare for whatever sponsor they a
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people that this is more affordable
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developed enormously in a decade, b
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THE RISE OF YACHT RACING EVENTS IN
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Oman Sail is fully funded for the f
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those boats are going to be out aga
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Scott Macleod: Well, the greatest t
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fantastic unimaginable sites. A lot
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WHAT IS THE COMMERCIAL VALUE AND FU
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Juan Kouyoumdjian: I was going to t
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The guys racing the Vendee Globe ar
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virtual world. If we see how many b
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CONCLUSION Pat Lilley Chairman, WYR
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Harald Thierer, Director, Match Rac
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