in yer face, rolex

[Editor]

Energy drink marketers are way smarter than I. After all, in the last 10 years they’ve invented new and novel ways to get folks to pay $7 billion more for caffeine. It’s the equivalent of re positioning the hot-dog as la cuisine gastronomique. Genius.

But this time, I think they’re really on to something. They might even Save Sailing!

Look around. Sailing is changing. It’s getting faster and way more fun for the pros. So the pros need helmets. And helmets need logos. Any savvy marketer will tell you those logos should reflect the target audience’s grandest aspirations. For example, everyone knows that NFL fans prefer tasteless beer and pizza.

What an honor it is for sailors to have caught the attention of said brilliant energy drink marketers, even in our advanced age. We’re no longer lowly connoisseurs of platinum timepieces and French champagne. No, thankfully, we sailors have just been promoted to the gas station drink cooler.

It’s a new day for sailing. Shed the pretension. Blue blood be damned. Let’s get real about our awesome sport. It’s extreme. It’s in yer face. It’s for guys with huge trucks.

Popeye, meet Viagra. - Nicholas Hayes

 

[CrushDigital]

Well if Red Bull wants to partner up with Mount Gay and start providing Red Bull and rum at regatta parties, I can't say I would be opposed.

 

[VWAP]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/25/health-risks-energy-drinks_n_2009529.html

The Health Risks Of Energy Drinks

 

[CowboyKell]

When sailing I only drink Champagne....or really good Carneros sparkling wine. The 18k Rolex yachtmaster is my cheap sailing watch. The 4ksb crowd can do as they please.

 

[Snaggletooth]

When sailing I only drink Champagne....or really good Carneros sparkling wine. The 18k Rolex yachtmaster is my cheap sailing watch. The 4ksb crowd can do as they please.

Wowe... you muste be licke royalltey.... wowe!

 

[CrushDigital]

http://www.huffingto..._n_2009529.html

The Health Risks Of Energy Drinks

Well it's a good thing I don't have a heart arrhythmia and the common sense to understand what moderation is. There is no more caffeine in an energy drink than there is in a properly brewed cup of coffee.

The thing with energy drinks is that they are also loaded with sugar, then again so is everything else that people tend to mix with Mount Gay.

 

[RumLine]

Rocket Fuel

8 oz Red Bull

4 oz Bacardi 151

Garnish with slice of jalapeno

The Babbling Drunk

2 oz 5 Hour Energy Grape

8 oz Mt Gay Rum

No need for garnish - chug it and feel no pain

 

[Caca Cabeza]

I don't always drink rum, but when I do, I drink lots of it.

 

[Snaggletooth]

Staye thistey my frend....

 

[dacapo]

http://www.huffingto..._n_2009529.html

The Health Risks Of Energy Drinks

Well it's a good thing I don't have a heart arrhythmia and the common sense to understand what moderation is.

I call Bullshit.....and the pool fence at Sea Cliff YC calls bullshit too

 

[CowboyKell]

When sailing I only drink Champagne....or really good Carneros sparkling wine. The 18k Rolex yachtmaster is my cheap sailing watch. The 4ksb crowd can do as they please.

Wowe... you muste be licke royalltey.... wowe!

As it should be in yacht racing.

Except for you young punks....We need you to crew for us and violate our daughters.

 

[pogen]

I usually mix my rum with rum.

 

[CrushDigital]

http://www.huffingto..._n_2009529.html

The Health Risks Of Energy Drinks

Well it's a good thing I don't have a heart arrhythmia and the common sense to understand what moderation is.

I call Bullshit.....and the pool fence at Sea Cliff YC calls bullshit too

I understand what it is, doesn't mean I practice it, making me even more thankful a don't have a heart arrhythmia.

 

[VWAP]

 

[JWBooth]

Health risks and all that fancy shit be damned. Rolex can suck it. Your little sister drinks champagne.

Are new sponsors advancing our sport by increasing exposure/marketability/interest?

Or getting a brand new club started somewhere?

Getting someone back involved with racing or just sailing?

Or getting a local sailing club (in KENTUCKY no less!!!) half a dozen new members?

Then who gives A SHIT if the fucking Dollar Store is sponsoring a boat? Now pass me the Bourbon and get the boats in the water, lets race bitches!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Long Live Anarchy, 4 Low, The White Trash Circus and The Dirtbag Brotherhood.

-DJub

 

[VWAP]

Health risks and all that fancy shit be damned. Rolex can suck it. Your little sister drinks champagne.

Are new sponsors advancing our sport by increasing exposure/marketability/interest?

Or getting a brand new club started somewhere?

Getting someone back involved with racing or just sailing?

Or getting a local sailing club (in KENTUCKY no less!!!) half a dozen new members?

Then who gives A SHIT if the fucking Dollar Store is sponsoring a boat? Now pass me the Bourbon and get the boats in the water, lets race bitches!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Long Live Anarchy, 4 Low, The White Trash Circus and The Dirtbag Brotherhood.

-DJub

Read the black thingies on the page not the white.

Nobody said anything was wrong with any type of sponsoring by any company.

Now if it was one of those tobacco companies....

 

[JWBooth]

Health risks and all that fancy shit be damned. Rolex can suck it. Your little sister drinks champagne.

Are new sponsors advancing our sport by increasing exposure/marketability/interest?

Or getting a brand new club started somewhere?

Getting someone back involved with racing or just sailing?

Or getting a local sailing club (in KENTUCKY no less!!!) half a dozen new members?

Then who gives A SHIT if the fucking Dollar Store is sponsoring a boat? Now pass me the Bourbon and get the boats in the water, lets race bitches!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Long Live Anarchy, 4 Low, The White Trash Circus and The Dirtbag Brotherhood.

-DJub

Read the black thingies on the page not the white.

Nobody said anything was wrong with any type of sponsoring by any company.

Now if it was one of those tobacco companies....

Thanks, I gotcha now, V.

I'm off my meds.

 

[John Drake]

Well it's a good thing I don't have a heart and the common sense to understand what moderation is.

I call Bullshit.....and the pool fence at Sea Cliff YC calls bullshit too

I understand what it is, doesn't mean I practice it, making me even more thankful a don't have a heart.

Just don't mention the club furniture he had to replace.It's a wonder SCYC keeps inviting us back what with dips in the pool at 0400, busting up the place, copius consumption of liquor and the behavior that ensues, fleeing moments before the cops arrive, trying to steal other competitor's women on the launch ride back out to the boat...and this is the crap we remember doing!

 

[dacapo]

Well it's a good thing I don't have a heart and the common sense to understand what moderation is.

I call Bullshit.....and the pool fence at Sea Cliff YC calls bullshit too

I understand what it is, doesn't mean I practice it, making me even more thankful a don't have a heart.

Just don't mention the club furniture he had to replace.It's a wonder SCYC keeps inviting us back what with dips in the pool at 0400, busting up the place, copius consumption of liquor and the behavior that ensues, fleeing moments before the cops arrive, trying to steal other competitor's women on the launch ride back out to the boat...and this is the crap we remember doing!

and think, we were practicing moderation.....