Training Ship Royalist takes pride of place on the Poole waterfront. Sheltering from today’s brisk breeze.
Supplanting Pip Hare's IMOCA from the prime spot. Her boat symbolically shorn of foils. Which are strapped to the foredeck.
Pip has been without sponsorship, since her Southern Ocean dismasting, in the 2024 Vendee Globe race. All available funds were exhausted in shipping the stricken craft home. No further financing, with which to launch a 2028 Vendee Globe challenge, has, so far, been found. In these uncertain times, of 'strong men' (swollen machismo?) and world financial insecurity.
Conditions which, one might have supposed, would not suit a builder of superyachts. However Sunseeker, despite another change in corporate ownership, seems to be thriving.
This stroll, along Poole Quay, thus suggesting that the prevailing principals, of global economics, are similar to those of a game of Snakes & Ladders.
Picture Credits
Southern Ocean dismasting courtesy of Pip Hare Ocean Racing.
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