I think the comments on this YouTube clip hit the nail on the head.
All of the excitement of the America’s Cup race has been taken out of it by corporate interest. It’s always been a rich man’s game, but they’ve taken it to a new level, now. And, they’ve brought the sport to its nadir.
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Does anyone care, even a little bit, about the America’s Cup? It’s a bunch of trust fund kids using their parents’ millions (or billions) to freaking sail? Is there anything, anything at all, less relevant to the average person than this? Dan(Quote)
Dan, I’m nowhere near being a trust-fun child, of course, but I’ve appreciated sailing ever since I took a course in Key West.
It’s a beautiful hobby (or sport) full of intricate calculations as well as personal intuition as far as weather, speed, angles, and waves. One could say it’s a little mathematical. Sam Scott(Quote)
To Sam’s statement, I would add more simply: sailors and wannabe sailors. Like me. Jeff(Quote)
I seem to have mis-stressed my venom. I certainly don’t have a problem with sailing, in and of itself. In fact, I would love the opportunity to go sailing someday — or at least ride on a sailboat. There’s just something romantic about a boat that moves without a motor. Maybe it’s the quieter nature of the locomotion.
The thing that I find absurd and irrelevant is the vast sums spent on such a pursuit. These boats, constructed of carbon composite, cost upwards of $100 million. I simply meant that the vast majority of people cannot relate to a pursuit like this. Sailing = okay. $100 million boats = what?!? Dan(Quote)
Sailing = okay. $100 million boats = what?!?
I remember an old joke from some stand-up comedian. When you have a ten-foot boat, you want a 15-foot boat. When you have a 15-foot boat, you want a 20-foot boat. And so on. Sam Scott(Quote)