ABERDEEN BOAT CLUB - CLASSIC YACHT RALLY SPONSORSHIP PROPOSAL INTRODUCTION THE BOATS THE EVENT BENEFITS OF SPONSORSHIP
----------------------We believe your business will achieve immeasurable benefit in helping us in 2014 and could be instrumental in promoting a different sailing ------------------------
INTRODUCTION This proposal is for the sponsorship of the Aberdeen Boat Club (ABC) Classic Yacht Rally 2014 and its 10th running anniversary. We believe your business will achieve immeasurable benefit in helping us in 2014 and could be instrumental in promoting a different sailing scene in Hong Kong. The first Aberdeen Boat Club Classic Yacht Rally was organised over the weekend of 7 and 8 May 2005, and was greatly supported by sailors from all over Hong Kong. The ABC Classic Yacht Rally is a celebration of style and design. While featuring older classic craft, it is at the same time open to all boats, both classic and modern. Non‐racing boats can join the rally division for a great cruising weekend with family and friends. There are various prizes including one for the oldest yacht, the and most colourful crew and many others. Finally non classic yachts also receive an overall cup. Every year since, the fleet of classic boats has kept on growing making the event if not the most competitive certainly the most elegant of the territory. ABC usually joins forces with the Tai Tam Hobie Club to make the Classic Yacht Rally fun and challenging by offering a two day cruising and racing event to boats that normally have no opportunity to compete in Hong Kong. One of the aims of this Rally is to promote the existence and the beauty of old sailing boats in Hong Kong and at the same time to keep the entertaining aspect of this event by having everyone leaving with a prize and an amazing reminiscence of those good old days when enjoyment was more important than haste.
-----------------We have the sailing talent and the boats, but in order for us to achieve our goals, we require your financial support to help fund this year very special 10th running Anniversary ------------------
A multitude of prizes are awarded but fun prizes as opposed to racing prizes are the one competitors are really looking for. These fun prizes are, include: The Best Bikini Display Spirit of The Event. Most Colourful Crew. Oldest Yacht. Best Most Pristine Classic Yacht. Best Maintained Yacht Concours D’elegance Awards There are also class prizes for Taipan, Cheoy Lee and Cape Carib Yachts, and other classes subject to a minimum of three entries. All Classic boats over 25 years old are eligible for the event Perpetual Trophy. We have the sailing talent and the boats, but in order for us to achieve our goals we require your financial support to help fund this year’s very special 10th running anniversary. We believe this proposal meets your full and careful consideration. Potential sponsors can enjoy a selection of different options to promote their business within both the local and international communities, and to support sailing in Hong Kong. We look forward to the opportunity of discussing this proposal with you further, and to understanding how we might team up together to make the next Classic Yacht Rally a roaring success.
THE BOATS
All classic boats over 25 years old are eligible for the event perpetual trophy. There are many classes of old boats in Hong Kong like the Taipans, Impalas, Cape Carib, Various Cheoy Lee, Flying Fifteen, Dragons, Sonatas, and Ruffians all of them have taken part in the race. Also a variety of one design classic yachts join this event and display the shear splendor of their shape and riggings. To make sense in this diversity we divide the fleet into classes and division as below: Classic racing yachts built more than 25 years ago Classic cruising yachts built more than 25 years ago Non classic racing yachts Non classic Cruising Yachts Modern Yachts with a classic design Classy Class – Design year less than 25 years old Classic Class – Design year 25 to 45 years old Vintage Class – Design year 46 to 65 years old Antique Class – Design year more than 65 years old THE EVENT This year’s Classic Yacht Rally will be held on 17th and 18th May 2014. The event will consists of a Saturday afternoon parade around Aberdeen typhoon shelter and a race to Tai Tam for an overnight raft up followed by a beach party at the Hobie Club facilities. On Sunday after a substantial breakfast, the competitive part of the event, an island race back to the ABC Middle Island clubhouse for a late lunch and the prize giving. BENEFITS OF SPONSORSHIP Our sailing office will work with potential sponsors to ensure that their partnership with ABC will achieve the best results for both parties. Subject to restrictions placed by the event’s sponsor, these packages can include the following:
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Our sailing office will work with potential sponsors to ensure that their partnership with ABC will achieve the best results for both parties. --------------------
• naming ceremony and sign on exposure day at Aberdeen Boat Club • logos on boat hulls • advertisement opportunities in the Club Magazine with over 1500 readers • advertisement on the Club website with a link to your Company • coverage on Facebook fan various pages with over 1000 members • signage/Banner on exterior of Club premises with traffic over thousand of people of the general public passing by every day. • on water corporate days during the race • coverage in other local yachting press, both online and printed All details of the these are listed on the last page of this documents CONTACT Eileen Sze:
[email protected] Philippe de Manny, General Manager:
[email protected]
SPONSORSHIP PACKAGES SPONSOR PACKAGE $60,000
EXCLUSIVE SPONSOR PACKAGE $100,000
Name of the sponsor will be on: Notice of race and the Race Instruction poster for the media poster for the clubs in Hong Kong all promotional item like Polo Shirt or T‐Shirts ABC Large Banner with the sponsor logo: One on Wong Chuk Hang Road ABC will place the Sponsor Logo next to the race documentation on the race webpage. ABC will offer a free advertisement in its Monthly Magazine for one issue Press coverage in Fragrant Harbour, Asia Pacific Boating, Yacht and Yachting, South China Morning Post
Name of the sponsor will be on: Notice of race and the Race Instruction poster for the media poster for the clubs in Hong Kong all Trophies all promotional item like Polo Shirt or T‐Shirts logos on boat hulls two ABC Large Banners with the sponsor logo: one facing Aberdeen Harbour one on Wong Chuk Hang Road ABC will provide a direct link on the Race webpage to the Sponsor website and the sponsor logo will be display next to the link ABC will offer a free advertisement in its Monthly Magazine for one issue ABC Membership Six months signing rights (not renewable) for one person of the company Press coverage in Fragrant Harbour, Asia Pacific Boating, Yacht and Yachting, South China Morning Post Corporates participation Sits on the Committee Boat at the start and at the Saturday Beach Party.