Följande låter nästan som ett skämt.
Utdrag ur dagens Scuttlebut newsbrief:
* Even when you thought it could not get any worse - it did. The defense club - Societe Nautique De Geneve's (SNG) - had their Race Committee actually go on strike and refuse to start Sunday's race ordered by ISAF approved PRO Harold Bennett. To begin the second race of the Match, Bennett was forced to draft Golden Gate Yacht Club (GGYC) observer Tom Ehman and a Guardia Civil cop on board the RC boat and ordered them to run the flags as Bennett counted down himself.
In the face of the SNG RC's intransigence, Bennett's solution was to draft Ehman and the Guardia Civil cop and order them to run the flags. The race was started at 4:25, just 5 minutes before the deadline and over the SNG RC's strike. Without Bennett's decisive action, the Cup would still be on hold for days, if not weeks. -- Cory E. Friedman in our sister publication, his reports at www.sailingscuttlebutt.com/news/07/cf/
* Bob Fisher confirms the report in Sail-World.com:
On board the committee boat, the members of the SNG refused to handle the flags. It was left to the Golden Gate YC representative and a chase boat driver to assist Harold Bennett. The reason for the SNG spat was unclear, but it has been suggested that they would have preferred not to race. The GGYC representative said: 'I will not comment on it, except to say that it was the most disgraceful behaviour I have ever encountered.'
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