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  1. staysail

    Banque Populaire dropping ClaCla

    https://www.beneteau.com/history Interesting read. Women have been well involved in Beneteau.
  2. staysail

    Banque Populaire dropping ClaCla

    I don't see BP as the only "Celebrity Skipper" project where some bloke in the "management" has reckoned he's more important than the skipper. Obviously trust then collapses because in projects like the VG and the VOR/OR everything, result, safety, lives, and publicity, ultimately depends on the...
  3. staysail

    Banque Populaire dropping ClaCla

    "....this was a dealbreaker for Clarisse Crémer, who considers that the trust relationship with some members of the sailing team, already damaged in the last months, is now non-existent...." What could be more important for a skipper in the non-stop single handed round the world Vendee Globe...
  4. staysail

    Banque Populaire dropping ClaCla

    Assuming you are a bloke, why not put on a blonde wig and a frock and see if BP will sign you up as girl skipper? At least they wont have to worry about you getting pregnant.
  5. staysail

    Banque Populaire dropping ClaCla

    So, wise one, you tell us why Clarisse got flicked? Nothing to do with her being a woman of course?
  6. staysail

    Banque Populaire dropping ClaCla

    Sure the IMOCO women are bad ass. The playing field is an uphill one for them. You hadn't noticed?
  7. staysail

    Banque Populaire dropping ClaCla

    So Anarchists, what's your take on the Seahorse article? Did nothing for me! How does Seahorse explain what happened to CC if everything in the garden is so hunky dory? Was the article written by a man?
  8. staysail

    Banque Populaire dropping ClaCla

    What could be more equal than reserving twenty places for men and twenty places for women? The present "race to the start line" positively discriminates against women (for those of us who can still tell the difference between a man and a woman!). There is no accommodation for gender in the...
  9. staysail

    Banque Populaire dropping ClaCla

    Sure Mad, its backfired deservedly on BP, but that takes the focus of the real guilty party, the person who decided on adding up ocean miles in a contest to secure a place on the start line. Women in the prime competeing age group i.e. from 25 to 45 years (5 VG race intervals) old are in the...
  10. staysail

    Banque Populaire dropping ClaCla

    Yes it would be a huge disappointment not to see Clarisse compete in the next VG. It looks to me as if, where you have a high profile sailing project with a woman skipper the woman skipper needs a contract to give her the top executive management position over the project and the team for a...
  11. staysail

    Banque Populaire dropping ClaCla

    Successful, capable, high profile women in sailboat racing do seem to bring out the worst in the men who get involved in the management of their projects.
  12. staysail

    Banque Populaire dropping ClaCla

    Let's think about this problem of unfair treatment of women who want to qualify to race the Vendee Globe and secure a position on the start line. Consider a hypothetical partnership of a woman who is an experienced Imoca sailor who has had a previous good result as a finisher in a previous...
  13. staysail

    Banque Populaire dropping ClaCla

    He did the same to me! Very sensitive about body language. Expect I am about to feel even more important!
  14. staysail

    Banque Populaire dropping ClaCla

    No other sport event that I know of requires the participants to absent themselves from proximity to medical care by thousands of miles and for periods of weeks during a qualification period and a contest for a place on the start line, of several years prior to an event. That requirement...
  15. staysail

    Banque Populaire dropping ClaCla

    The body language in Mich's piece for BFM TV perhaps conveys more than the spoken words. The classics "Gallic shrug", blinking eyes.
  16. staysail

    Banque Populaire dropping ClaCla

    If the struggle to qualify to enter the event starts to get more difficult than sailing the race and when ever-changing "rules" start forcing out publicly regarded celebrity skippers, maybe its time to look more critically at the organization of the event itself. This CC affair is for sure not...
  17. staysail

    Banque Populaire dropping ClaCla

    The comments under this BP Facebook post are a good read! Voile Banque Populaire's Post...
  18. staysail

    Banque Populaire dropping ClaCla

    Funny really. 2023 and inclusivity and equality are the corporate buzzwords. That is until a few brilliant women turn up who threaten the guys at their own game. Good old misogyny kicks in. Back to the stone age! Take the women down. Neanderthals!



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