“They say money doesn’t buy happiness.”
“Yeah, but it buys a wave-runner,” comedian Daniel Tosh once joked.
He’s right; you’ll never see an unhappy person on a wave-runner, and you won’t often see one on a yacht either. Certainly not when that yacht is racing, and winning. While Chicago is currently hosting the World Series in Major League Baseball, the Louis Vuitton America’s Cup World Series came to Chicago this past June. Having covered the event and all that surrounds it in great detail, I learned about all the multi-faceted aspects of what it takes to become a winner in yacht racing.
One extremely overlooked, but critical component to success is a great, reliable time piece. And you have to put in the effort at a reputable marketplace, like watchshopping.com to find the right one. It’s certainly worth the investment of your time.
“Perhaps the most important part of a yachting race unfolds in the ten minutes before the start of the race.ย This is when the sailors maneuver their vessels to the best possible starting position.ย 10 minutes.ย Critical.ย They think, ‘I need to know how much time I have left.ย Will I get the best possible position? I need to be able to glance at my watch,”ย says Tom Pozsay, Director of Watches & Watch Acquisitions ย atย WP Diamonds.
“How much time do I have left?ย Canโt barge the starting line.ย Canโt hit another vessel.’ Time.ย A great yachting timepiece will give the Captain the required information with the greatest of ease.ย This way, the Captain can get to the starting line and win the race,”
It’s a sport where timing is everything- getting a better time against your competition, finding the right time to harness the elements, observing and recording your time so that you can strive to achieve an even better time in the next training session and/or competition.
Thus the right time piece is essential. Form follows function, and watches have now emerged as the one piece of jewelry universally accepted for men to wear in all situations. With the advent of smartphones, watches have become less prevalent in everyday life, their usefulness has declined somewhat with most people use their phones in order to check the time. However, this development has also served to make watches contain inherently more style points than ever before.
You see that up on the waves as well. While you need a dependable, efficient timepiece in the world of yachting, you also want to look really good.
