Getting the fleet and equipment loaded onto the ship has required a considerable team effort on the part of 52 SUPER SERIES logistics partners Peters & May; their local agents Pronto Clearing; a diligent and committed team of 52 SUPER SERIES shore crews who have remained in Cape Town, some for more than six weeks; and numerous Cape Town locals who have ensured the process has been completed in the most diplomatic, pragmatic manner possible. A top priority has always been the health, safety and well-being of the local population.
“With the boats now safely on their way, we have given ourselves options to be able to respond quickly in order to deliver exciting 52 SUPER SERIES regattas when it becomes safe to do so. We remain very positive and have several possible plans in place,” says Agustín Zulueta, CEO of the 52 SUPER SERIES. “I have to pay a very warm tribute to all who have played a role in what has been the most challenging period in our history, particularly Justo Gosalbes of Peters & May and South African Shosholoza America’s Cup sailor Mike Giles who has been something of a guardian angel in Cape Town ensuring we could speak to the right people and get positive answers when we needed them.”
Key permissions were sought and granted to allow selected 52 SUPER SERIES team personnel and their agents to work on the race boats that were locked down within the V&A Waterfront dock area, close to where the yachts were berthed for the Odzala Discovery Camps 52 SUPER SERIES V&A Waterfront Cape Town regatta in March. With a huge backlog of goods and cargo locked down and waiting to be moved, the danger was in the TP52s being caught up in the rush to clear the backlog when the port is due to re-open on 1st May.
So advance permission was granted to allow the cargo ship to come into the V&A Waterfront dock area to allow the nine race boats – all that competed in Cape Town less Phoenix 11, which will stay at its home base – and teams’ equipment to be loaded on to the ship. Previously no movement of cargo has been permitted within the dock area, so by allowing the ship to come to its cargo has meant the yachts could be loaded by a fixed, dockside crane. All of the boats have been looked after by the local Phoenix teams’ Tony Norris, James Largier, Alex Allison, Tim Marsh, John Upham, Sled’s Mathew Joubert, Alegre’s effervescent Pedro De Cospedal , Provezza’s Jo and Kelly Lees, Platoon’s Felix Schmidt and Mike Giles from Quantum Racing and Bronenosec. By all accounts Quantum Racing’s indefatigable Brendan Darrer has kept the group driving forwards in great humour. Normally there are up to 30 personnel involved in the ship loading, this time there have been a dozen, working in three shifts of four.
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