Unfortunately, the start of this regatta has been a very negative experience for many of us. Charter Boats were to be made available from Nordest (Italy) and FataMorgana / Morgan Boats (Slovenia). Nordest came with his boats on Thursday - a day late. Morgan has still not delivered all his boats. (Saturday).
IODA has in its wisdom decided that each team chartering boats MUST have the same number of boats from both charterers. The effect was that many sailors were left on shore Thursday and Friday because they were not allowed to use any spare Nordest Charter Boats that were awaiting sailors arriving later and because Morgan Optimist had no boats delivered as of Friday afternoon.
Absolutely unacceptable for an event like this. We put in an application to the organizing committe and IODA to use two Nordest boats that were brought as spare boats, but were rejected.
The situation now is that as of today (Saturday morning) we still only have two charter boats. The remaining two charter boats from Morgan Optimist is supposedly going to be delivered within the hour. Whether this is true or another lie from the organizers and FataMorgana is impossible to say. The story continues..
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