by admiral 1 » 29 Jan 2011 03:40
I strongly advise any NZL team to look only within its borders. Only after a jury finds that there are not enough vsk sailors in NZL then "may" the VTC RC allow....
I advise to at the very least document all recuiting attempts amongts NZL vsk players should the team decide to atke on a 4th international sailor...
and if an international sailor the it highly adiseable to make sure that skipper is from a country that can not possibly have enough players to make a team.
NZL as the country with one sailoboat per citizen is going to have a real hard time convincing my team....
Theeuwes de Jong, skipper of Admiral
"As far as I can remember, there aren't a lot of points of land or holidays named after people who sat at home and criticized Christopher Columbus."
( Paul Cayard, from the Pirates base, in an e-mail to race HQ. 25 Jan 2006 volvooceanrace.org)