Tactical Error

Tracy Edwards just announced her sponsorship coup - $63 million from Qatar for her 110' catamaran and two round the world races for mega multihulls and monohulls. Bruno Peyron, who originated "The Race", the first round the world venue for giant multihulls and who has been unable to find sponsorship for two very similar events reacted angrily, accusing Edwards of "High Seas Robbery".

This weekend at Pop!Tech, I ran into Cam Lewis, superstar sailor and owner of one of the small group of mega multihulls and onetime crew with Bruno on the first cat to win the Jules Verne trophy for sailing around the world in under 80 days. His great comment: "Sour grapes lead to bad French whine."