Sounds fun to me !!!

You can tell that was much later in the year than April. Water is flat in the video. The run back from Bimini last year was 8-10 foot with random 12's.

Make a bet on that?

Say's the guy with a real offshore boat!

Yeah but the promoter can't overcharge all the teams for dockage, crane rental, parking, tent set up, food catering, etc! Combine that with the normal pricing of S. FL vs. Bahamas overcharging and the Bahamians will complain they didn't make anything either!

We went last year. It was a fantastic event. For the record, we didnt pay for the crane, docks, tents (the dry pits werent really used), parking or food catering. Other than travel expenses, and same fairly pricey rooms/food it cost us no more than your typical race. And the hotel paid for the shipping.

Here's the deal. Resorts World Bimini spent a LOT getting us all there last year. We raced, and we left. That's the problem. If it was a week long event and they got a weeks worth of room revenue out of it spending 300k getting the boats there would make sense. But it isn't, and probably wont be.

On the rest of the comments, im glad OSO has the issues with racing all sorted out. One of you please start an organization that has endurance ocean racing, tv coverage (last years Bimini race was on NBC Sports btw), real prize purses and real corporate sponsors. We'll be the first team to sign up. If you don't, frankly, shut it. Unless you're actively coming up with something better (I can promise none of it is as simple as you think), stop running down the current format.

Odd, I've been a lifelong supporter and critic of sports, all the major profession sports in my home state and others have received my wrath. We're stuck with the Detroit Lions and they get huge amounts of criticism from the fan base.
Yet none of them ever said publicly " If you don't, frankly, shut it ". Guess that's why they're called profession, even with TV revenue they want fans at the events.

Resorts World is owned by the Genting Group, a large-scale multi-national corporation. My best guess was that the $400,000 Resorts World Bimini spent to host last year's race came out of a discretionary marketing budget, meaning a portion of the overall marketing budget used to "try things." If the investment returns to the corporation's satisfaction, the venture might (key word) get funded again. If not, not—and clearly this was a case of not.

So, you honestly think that they thought they would make their money back that weekend? Companies like that do it for brand exposure, NOT for immediate ROI.

WRONG. There's no need for "another" organization, you and the other racers need to sit down and restructure the program... It's not rocket science, just make sure you take notes and write everything down... NO BS, it could get all done and structured in a few weeks and be ready to race by next season at the latest. And please don't challenge me to "do it", although you can "hire" me to get it done.