How much sailing have you done in the last year?

Every week, but never enough :-)

In response to this forums comment from Birdseyeview regading a helicopter in attendance at the Lancelin Ocean Classic.

To this time, 12th November 2009 The Lancelin Chamber of Commerce has not received any correspondence or a quotation from Birdseyeview in respect to a helicopter being in attendance for the ocean marathon or wave events.

Birdseyeview has been present in the past but this was purely of their own volition with no agreement in place with the Chamber of Commerce.

If Birdseyeview or any other business wish to present a proposal for the 2010 event, we are happy to review and see if we can accomodate within our budget.

Further, to state that we have received up to $40,000 in sponsorship is completly unsubstantiated and not accurate.

The Lancelin Chamber take this opportunity to welcome all sailors to Lancelin during the 2009/10 windsurfing season. We are all working hard behind the scenes to make the 25th event as safe and memorable as possible for all who take on the challenge of sailing in this now world famous event.
We look forward to meeting as many of you as possible during the 4 days of the regatta.

Good Luck and safe sailing to all
Chairman Ron and the Committee of the LANCELIN OCEAN CLASSIC
sub committee of the LANCELIN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE & INDUSTRY Inc.

Hi Nebbian

I will look into your queries and get some testing done on the rego form.

I agree, its time the LOC accepted electonic payments. We have already agreed that we need to get paypal up and running, again, I will enquire and get this managed ASAP.

Everyone can make a direct payment to the LOC account. These details are on the web site, perhaps not detailed well enough.

Details are:
BSB 633108
Bank # 633000
SWIFT BENDAU3B
Bank Name: Bendigo Bank
Address: 3 Constable Street Gingin Western Australia 6503
Account Number: 1180723647
Account Name: Lancelin Chamber of Commerce & Industry Inc

If anyone wants to confirm their registration please email: [email protected] - you will receive a response.

Please feel free to use the above banking details for onshore and offshore registrations.
Cheers
locadmin

I think the helicopter, and the footage we see from it, add massively to the event in terms of status, potential media coverage and general excitement.

Can you guys please come to some agreement to get the chopper up there again in 2010?

If someone could put together a half-decent DVD at a reasonable price, including lots of stills, no doubt you would sell plenty of copies to help cover some of your costs.

birdseyeview said...

I guess this is the best topic to answer the question that I've been asked a lot lately - no, we will not be taking a helicopter to Lancelin this year. After 3 year's of providing the photos/video at next to no cost to the organizer's they have decided in their infinite wisdom that it is too expensive to have a helicopter for the race.

What the hell are they thinking? That is disgraceful. The biggest and longest running event in the world is downgrading???? Go figure.

For years I have grizzled about how they don't use that awesome footage to get it on the news and Sports Tonight etc.

A bit of exposure would go a long way and even to the extent it would perhaps help our case to have an artificial reef built at Oakagee if the pollies and businesses involved saw how big windsurfing is in WA.
We're about to lose an awesome spot and the LOC and Lancelin CCI sees fit to reduce our media exposure (not that they seemed to try before)

Maybe it would help our local Stone boys and Scotty etc get more sponsorship if the event was all thru the media?

But no, LOC cancel the heli.

That footage can still be seen :)
You just have to know where to look.

Well spotted Saltiest1. I wonder which one is right, or even if they've received my payment?

Gee a receipt of some sort would be nice.