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 A FANTASTIC RACEWEEK! |
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“We’re not used to racing in this much wind in Asia,” an exhilarated Peter Ahern told the organisers on Sunday evening at the Six Senses Phuket Raceweek Gala Prizegiving and Closing Party. Yo!2 wiped the board with a first in all eight IRC Racing Class 1 races.
“Thanks for a fantastic Race Week. We look forward to the next one…” said Cunning Plan’s Rob Azzopardi. “Forget the rest,” said another participating owner. “This is absolutely the best regatta in Asia.”
According to Asia Marine's Olivier Payen, on Kinnon, Raceweek was: “A great opportunity for our staff to participate... and create internal team building.” While Katsu's Ben Copley (2nd overall in IRC Racing Class 1) described Raceweek as: “An excellent well run Regatta. Good courses, excellent race management and off water administration, great parties.”
“An excellent and extremly well organized regatta. By far the best [yet]. It would be difficult to find fault with anything,” said Mark Pescott, skipper of Twin Sharks and designer of the Firefly fleet.
“I thoroughly enjoyed [it] and will definitely be back. From my point of view one of the most exciting regattas I have been to for a long, long time,” added Roger Kingdon, owner and skipper of the Firefly Moto Inzi. Kingdon managed a third place after eight races, coming in just one point behind the tied first and second placed SEA Property and Mamba in this highly competitive one-design class.
Other class winners were Niels Degenkolw’s Phoenix (IRC Racing 2), with an all-girl hotshot crew from Denmark, Andrew de Bruin’s Awatea (Club-Charter) in its first Six Senses Phuket Raceweek, Chameleon skippered by Shane Smith (Ocean Multihull), Mark Horwood’s Charro (Racing Multihull) and Gunther Nutt’s Kerida, maintaining its unbroken record as supremo of the Classic Class.
“In the five years that we’ve been running this event, I’ve never had so many people come up on the last night and congratulate us,” said an exhausted but smiling Grenville Fordham, MD of organisers and rights owners IMAGE asia. Fordham had forsaken shore side this year to take race in the 44-boat fleet himself, together with Race Committee Chairman and regatta co-founder, Andy Dowden, on Club Class entrant, Roger Harris’s Simone, gaining a third place in the series.
Participants and organisers were not the only happy folk at the Evason Phuket & Six Senses Spa regatta venue on Sunday night. Sponsors, too, lauded the event and the milestone achievement this year in raising its profile and standards — in large part due to the contribution of Title Sponsor, Six Senses Resorts & Spas.
From the sponsor's point of view, what sets Raceweek apart from others is the attention paid to professional sponsorship management. From first contact, through signing a sponsorship agreement, until after the event winds down, sponsorship marketing consultants Paul Poole (South East Asia) Co., Ltd work with both the sponsor and the organiser to ensure that agreed benefits are delivered in full and that opportunities presented by the event are fully maximised.
The success of this approach is borne out by the support this year of significant brand names: Co-Sponsors Raimon Land, Rodenstock and Tourism Authority of Thailand, Official Suppliers Johnnie Walker Soda Mix, Mont Clair Wines and SIXT Rent-a-Car, Media Partners Asia-Pacific Boating, Asia Spa, Australasian Yachting, China Boating, CNN Traveller, Daily XPress, LP Luxury Properties, Phuket Gazette, Prestige Magazine and SEA Yachting, as well as a whole raft of local partners and supporters.
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UNICORN BAND A HUGE HIT AT RACEWEEK 2008
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Thailand's top all-girl rock 'n roll band - Unicorn - rocked the participants and guests for two nights at Six Senses Phuket Raceweek 2008. The six talented girls responded to the enthusiasm of the crowd and put on the performance of a lifetime. |
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| For full details of the Raceweek 2008 event programme, click here |
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| RECORD ENTRIES |
23 July 2008
As registration closed for the 5th Six Senses Phuket Raceweek, a record 44 boats were set to cross the start line on the first day of racing, Thursday 24 July — a 60% increase in the 2007 fleet — with entries coming from more than 10 nationalities, including Australia, China (Hong Kong), France, Indonesia, Malaysia, New Zealand, Russia, Singapore, South Africa, UK, USA and Thailand.
The boats were divided into seven classes, including IRC Racing Class 1, IRC Racing Class 2, Club/Charter Class, Racing Multihull Class, Ocean Multihull Class, Firefly 850 One-design Class and Classic Class.
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For comprehensive, detailed information on cruising in Southeast Asia, get your copy of Andaman Sea Pilot, published by the organsisers of Six Senses Phuket Raceweek.
www.andamanseapilot.com
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