Abgesagt am Tag, als es los gehen sollte:
A press release from the organization of the
Fuerte Action Windsurfing Speed World Championship 2022.
The Windsurfing Speed World Championships, which were originally planned for the period 30.06.-04.07.2022, had to be cancelled and rescheduled to 2023. In the run-up we had decided together with our partners for a new and different spot in the south of Fuerteventura and in order to be allowed to hold such an event, various permits must be obtained. One of them is an environmental impact assessment. Problems arose very late in the planning process. We were forced to change location extremely late during the organizational process of the 2022 Speed World Championships. This change was made due to the protection of an endemic and endangered sea limpet in the original planned event area which the local government was not aware of. This was a shock to everyone: the event organizers; the legal and professional teams preparing the permits; and, indeed, the local government.
We immediately worked to change location and prepared a mountain of new legal and procedural documentation for submission to the local, regional and national government. This included re-hiring event architects and engineers to prepare a fully comprehensive new environmental impact study and a new safety and emergency protocol.
Hopes were held high by various entities that permits would arrive at the last minute and on time for the event. However, the environmental aspect, which is paramount to securing the master event permit, has proven to be a hurdle too great to cross in time for the event due mostly to the lack of staff in the local Government after the covid pandemic.
Because of this we have had to postpone the event until 2023 and will come back bigger and stronger.
We are really deeply sorry that it has now come to this cancellation and hope you all understand this decision was not taken lightly. We would like to assure you that the whole team have worked incredibly hard and at a great expense to be able to organize a speed event for all of us speed fanatics after the difficult years we have had. We wish to thank each and every one of you, along with our collaborators and sponsors, for the continuous support in our events. We wish you a great and windy summer season and we hope to see you in 2023.
Happy sailing.
The Fuerte Action & Dunkerbeck GPS Challenge team.