Signing off!
First off, congratulations again to Bora Gulari. A few years of very hard sailing culminated in him dominating (in the end) this championship and bringing the Cup back to the US for the first time in 33 years. Given the unbelievable talent in this fleet it is very hard to overstate that achievement! For the class as well this was icing on the cake as it keeps the interest up in the US.
I was hoping to get this out last week but somehow I underestimated the shock of returning to the real world and dealing with issues that had been largely ignored for a couple of weeks!
I just wanted to give a summary of the best photo's and videos as well as reiterate thanks to a few of the key players in making this event the resounding success that it was (Apart from the Sun who failed miserably. Only silver lining is that the lower temps probably stopped the winds getting nuclear). It seems that we set new benchmarks for media publicity, worldwide exposure in and out of the sailing world as well as drastically reducing productivity for the employers of the few thousand people per day who where following the event's every move.
We had so many mails and texts from Moth sailors, sailors and non sailors who could not get enough of the live text feeds, the creative press releases, the continuous video and the thousands of professional photographs. Over the course of the event, we had 25,000 visits and almost 100,000 page views, 50% coming from the US and the other half spanning 91 countries. 23% of these visits where referred from the IMCA World site - www.moth-sailing.org, 23 % from Sailing Anarchy (55% front page, 45% from the forums) and the other 50% was mainly direct and Google searches.
A big big thanks to Alan Block (Mr Clean) from Sailing Anarchy who spent a huge amount of effort publicizing the event and working to rapidly improve the internet infrastructure at Cascade Locks/CGRA. All future events at CGRA will benefit from Alan's efforts as they are now connected directly to the ISP in Stevenson and have enough bandwidth for live streams. Clean posted a ton of videos of the racing and interviews in'On the Water Anarchy'- found here. If you havent checked them out and have a few minutes or hours to spare, its a must view.
George Yioulos from West Coast Sailing. George was the man behind the live text commentary and even managed to go over the twitter hourly post limit on the last day. (Hence the gap in posting). The energy that he is putting into the class is amazing and we owe him a lot of thanks for this event and the class health in general.
Michelle Slade. Michelle got in touch with us a few months before the event and added an innovative and professional feel to the press releases. The insight into the Worlds would have been lacking without her, so thank you. Again.
The coverage aside, racing got underway with ruthless efficiency and flawless mark setting. Kerry Poe stayed ahead of schedule to complete fifteen races in five days. Thanks Kerry!
Making everything actually happen, including inexhaustibly spreading the local interest was the CGRA team, specifically Bill Symes, Jarvis Brecker and Marilyn Hodson. Official event photographer Sean Trew for providing images for the competitors, press releases and media. Thierry Martinez for continuing to support the class and coming over from France. Thanks to Choy from Columbia Market for allowing us to store the generously donated kegs from Kona Brewing Company and to metal work artist and Mayor of Cascade locks Brad Morang for making the unique trophies. Thanks to Christin Feldman Couvreux for helping me with this web site along with the twitter updates and general cat herding around the boat park.
A huge thank you to Charlie McKee for tirelessly rallying sponsors and troops. Although he will not take the official position in the class, I think everyone knows that he is providing the energy to make most of this happen. Thanks Andy Mills and Diego Gomez-Hall for putting in hours of non existent free time getting sails and boats measured before and during the event, hopefully Diego's boat fund is edging closer to reality. The local Moth sailors, Doogie, Morgan Larson and Andy Mack for organizing the lead up events and dinners and a personal thanks to Adam May for helping get my boat setup when I was on the verge of throwing in the towel before the lay day.
Of course it would have been a very different Worlds if it where not for the generous sponsorship of Clive Watts and CST Composites. The same goes for Ron Rosenberg, Ward McClatchy and Bill Goggins from Harken and McLube who allowed the class to have the perfect built up circuit to the Worlds. I can speak for every competitor when thanking Mattson Davis from the Kona Brewing Company who supplied all the beer. Thank you also to West Coast Sailing, Zhik, Fisheries Supply, Nestle Waters, and West Marine for ensuring key elements could happen. I am sure that we made it a great investment for all our sponsors with the number of worldwide eyes watching and I hope that these relationships can continue.
I will probably continue to edit this list as the post event reports come out but I wanted to have a single place to see some of the highlights of the 2009 CST Composites Moth Worlds:
SA's On the Water Anarchy - A hundred videos of interviews and racing.
Regatta report from T2P.tv
Thursday's Highlights from T2P.tv
Friday's Highlights from T2P.tv
Saturday's Highlights from T2P.tv
Two fantastic and unexpected video's courtesy of Tyler Shortt of ShorttSupply and AllExits productions. Apparently we generated 22,000 hits in one day on AllExits' site once this video was linked to!
Slalom video including the jaw dropping HD slow motion gybe from Nathan Outteridge
Final Day's highlights
Sean Trew's gallery (Pacific Fog)
Gallery from Thierry Martinez
Amory Ross's Gallery
Meredith Block's Gallery
KGW Oregon TV, 2 minute spot on daily news
KATU Oregon TV, 45 second spot on daily news
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