Logistical challenges of sailing
Written by RYA | 18 December 2013
Miami awaits as sailors say 'bon voyage' to their racing dinghies
With the first ISAF Sailing World Cup event of 2014 taking place in Biscayne Bay, Miami, in January, sailors are faced with the logistical challenges of getting boats and equipment across the Atlantic safely ready for the regatta build-up.
And with some 34 sailors from the British Sailing Team due to make the trip over to the USA for the starting gun on the 27 January 2014 – it is the Team’s official logistics provider, Peters and May, who help ensure everything makes it across the pond and through customs in time and in safe working order.
In the run up to Christmas, members of the British Sailing Team undertook a military operation in loading five 40ft containers with RIBs, boats, masts, technical sailing equipment, training bikes plus whatever else they could squeeze in at the RYA’s equipment store.
It’s a far cry from packing your tennis rackets or running spikes to take with you on the plane!
Watch the operation unfold here…