Construction on village for next leg of America’s Cup World Series begins in San Diego: Sailing News
The start of the new America’s Cup World Series Village construction has given new shape to Broadway and Navy piers in San Diego where the next event of AC World Series is going to be held. The village site is raging with construction activity with trucks
coming and going, with the building material and containers came from Plymouth a few days back.
All the construction work is being managed by the Onshore Operation Director for the America´s Cup World Series, Peter Ansell, who is working with a 12-person construction team which is setting the village up. Ansell’s construction crew is giving the best
of their efforts full to make every bit ready as soon as possible before the event starts.
Speaking to the local media, Ansell explained the work, “We´ve got about 108 shipping containers, although not all of them will come up here. Some of them contain the RIBs and we need to do some work on them. The on-water guys have a program of maintenance
that they´ve got to do on the boats, and then the boats will come directly by water from the terminal.”
Ansell is heading the construction process step-by-step to make it more comfortable for the teams, who will start arriving at the venue before the race. He is making sure everything is in proper shape.
He added, “In the last couple of days, we´ve been discharging all the containers from the ship on to the dock side of the marine terminal so all of that has been done in advance. All the containers now are at the dockside and now we are bringing the containers
by truck and building the race village, including all the team bases, the ACTV compound...”
As for the teams arriving at the village, Ansell believes that everything will be ready on time for them to start sailing in the event. They will receive team’s shore crews on November 1, and will do the next stage of the preparation. Ansell also said that
each team is responsible to build their bases and they will be ready to set sail on San Diego waters on November 8, to get some practice before the first day of the event on November 12.
Ansell has a vast experience of working in many different global sports events including Football World Cup, Formula 1 and many events in the world sailing races. His construction team, comprising of just twelve people, has been kept extremely busy doing
such a big logistical operation. Ansell and the same team have already done two sailing events before and they hope the AC World Series will be another success in their work experience.
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