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8 Quick Lessons to Grasp the Basics of Olympic Sailing Understanding Olympic Sailing: 8 Bite-Sized Lessons to Confidently Spectate Olympic sailing is one of the most exhilarating and strategic sports in the Summer Games, yet it often remains a mystery to many spectators. As this topic has surged as the most trending search on Google today, we delve into the intricacies of Olympic sailing to help you understand and enjoy the sport better. If you ever found yourself puzzled by the complexities of sailing competitions, this informative guide will clear the fog. For more in-depth details, you can refer to the article on Yachting World by following this link. 1. […] https://lnkd.in/dH-AcA7r https://lnkd.in/dfSXdXHK

The Regatta : Les Sables D'Olonne - The Azores - departure today at 13h To follow up in live : https://lnkd.in/eDNcDAr3 General Presentation The "Les Sables d'Olonne - The Azores - Les Sables" (SAS) regatta is a solo transatlantic race, first held in 2006. This race is a key event for skippers of the Mini 6.50 class supported by Sames. At Sames, we are committed to sustainability and environmental protection. Sponsoring Ramon Ribera in this regatta reflects our support for sailing, an eco-friendly form of marine transport. Course and Proceedings The regatta starts in Les Sables d'Olonne. Competitors sail to Horta, on the island of Faial in the Azores archipelago, before returning to Les Sables d'Olonne. The course covers approximately 2540 nautical miles and is divided into two stages: 1. **Stage 1: Les Sables d'Olonne to Horta** - Skippers cover around 1270 nautical miles, facing the varied conditions of the North Atlantic. 2. **Stage 2: Horta to Les Sables d'Olonne** - After a short rest and possible repairs in Horta, sailors set off again for another 1270 nautical miles journey back to the Vendée coast. Boats and Participants The regatta is open to Mini 6.50 class boats, which are 6.50-meter monohull sailboats. These boats are known for their small size, lightness, and high speeds, making the race particularly demanding and technical. Participants are solo skippers. The regatta attracts sailors from various nationalities, including professional mariners and passionate amateurs eager to take on the Atlantic. Challenges and Stakes The regatta presents numerous challenges: - **Weather Conditions**: Skippers must navigate through often challenging weather conditions, including storms and strong winds. - **Navigation and Strategy**: The race requires excellent navigation and strategic skills to optimize trajectories and performance. - **Solitude and Resilience**: For solo participants, managing solitude and fatigue is crucial. They must remain vigilant and performant throughout the crossing. Importance of the Race The Les Sables d'Olonne - The Azores regatta is an important milestone in the career of Mini class skippers. It often serves as preparation for longer and more demanding races, such as the Mini Transat. Moreover, it promotes solo sailing and highlights the skill and determination of sailors. Conclusion The Les Sables d'Olonne - The Azores - Les Sables race is a test of endurance and skill, celebrating the spirit of adventure and maritime excellence. It is an iconic regatta that continues to attract and challenge the world's best sailors. #SAMES #LesSablesLesAçoresLesSables #Sailing #Sponsorship #Environment #Sustainability #marinetransport

https://ift.tt/sEO9rUZ ‘I don’t want to watch sailing with a calculator’ – Matthew Sheahan on Olympic Sailing for Spectators Is Olympic sailing heading in the right direction as a showcase of the sport – for both competitors and spectators? Matthew Sheahan assesses. How was your summer season? If you went to a major event like Olympic sailing, did you wonder where everyone else was? Cowes Week seemed to stir up plenty of debate as to why numbers haven’t returned to those of a few years ago. Among the many views, and setting that of cost to one side, a common one was how seven days of racing (plus the additional ones to cover getting there and back), doesn’t fit with people’s busy lifestyles any more. If you weren’t at a regatta maybe you were watching the Olympic sailing? What did you think of the sailing in Marseille? I ask because this year I was surprised at how many people voiced criticisms that the Games format isn’t as fair as it could be and isn’t showing our sport in its best light. Olympic Sailing for the spectators Spectator sailing and the medal race system has been a source of debate since the day it was announced as the new configuration for Olympic sailing. Introduced for the 2008 Beijing Games to make sailing more appealing to a wider audience while making the sport of winning medals more dramatic, we were told that this was required to secure sailing’s future as an Olympic sport. Carry on as it was and the threat was that sailing could lose its place in the Games. So, when it comes to attracting a bigger audience, making sailing look cool and securing the sport’s future in the biggest show on earth, has the exercise worked? I’m not sure it has. Yes, there have been some developments that may have helped draw a bigger audience. The fact that half the Olympic classes are now on foils brings the sport bang up to date. As we’ve seen in the America’s Cup, doing 30 knots in a single figure breeze is pretty impressive and gets people asking how it’s possible before they even think of asking how the racing works. But how long does this interest last? I’m all in favour of foiling developments and believe strongly that this discipline is here to stay. But in my opinion the relative lack of movement, when compared to traditional classes like the 470 or the ILCA, makes it harder to relate to and therefore less appealing in the long run. But that’s not my beef. Compromising the sport for the sake of spectators is. Bringing the medal race course close to shore where the breeze is often lighter and more flukey makes delays more likely and TV broadcasters less likely to commit to putting sailing on screen. And when they do show it, often it’s not at its best. It seems odd that with helicopters, drones, trackers and superb race course overlays to hand, if ever there was a time that we could put the racing where it was best placed to deliver a spectacle, it is now. Instead, we bring it close to the shore in front of a tiny spectator...

America’s Cup boats: 8 facts about the AC75 and why they’re unique https://ift.tt/9YVKZgR The America's Cup boats to be used on the 2024 edition of the event are immensely complicated high tech bits of kit. They might be officially sailing craft but they behave in some remarkable ways The AC75 is the class of boat that takes part in the America’s Cup and are arguably the most radical boats the compeition has ever seen.  This type of America’s Cup boat was first used in the 2021 America’s Cup so this is the second event in which these boats have been used.   The America’s Cup is, fundamentally, a design competition, and successive America’s Cups have featured the most extreme yachts yet – for their time – ever since the first race in 1851. However, the foiling boats we have seen in the last four editions of America’s Cup racing (the AC72 and AC50 catamarans, and now the AC75 monohulls) do represent a new direction for the highest level of sailing. There are plenty who argue that this technology is so far beyond the bounds of what most people consider sailing as to be an entirely different sport. Equally, there are those who believe this is simply a continuation of the development that the America’s Cup has always pushed to the fore, from Bermudan rigs, to composite materials, winged keels, and everything in between. Good arguments can be made either way and foiling in the world’s oldest sporting trophy will always be a subjective and controversial topic. But one thing is certain: the current America’s Cup boats, the AC75s, are unlike anything seen before and are showcasing to the world just what is possible under sail power alone. Photo: Ian Roman / America’s Cup 1 Unimaginable speed Topping the 50-knot barrier used to be the preserve of extreme speed record craft and kiteboarders. A World Speed Sailing Record was set in 2009 of 51.36 knots by Alain Thebault in his early foiling trimaran, Hydroptere, and was bested in 2010 by kite boarder, Alexandre Caizergues who managed 54.10 knots. Only one craft has ever topped 60-knots, the asymmetric Vestas Sail Rocket 2, which was designed for straight line speed only and could no more get around an America’s Cup course than cross an ocean. Such records are set by sailing an average speed over the course of 500m, usually over a perfectly straight, flat course in optimum conditions. America’s Cup class yachts, designed to sail windward/leeward courses around marks, are now hitting speeds that just over a decade ago were the preserve of specialist record attempts, while mid-race. American Magic has been recorded doing 53.31 knots on their first version of the AC75 class, Patriot. Perhaps even more impressive, in the right conditions when racing we have seen some boats managing 40 knots of boatspeed upwind in around 17 knots of wind. That is simply unheard of in performance terms and almost unimaginable just three or so years ago. Article continues below… How to watch the America’s Cup pr...

Previewing the Contenders: Paris 2024 Olympic Sailing Events Discover the top contenders for the 2024 Paris Olympic Sailing Events. Get insights on the World Sailing Rankings, highlighting Canada and the USA. #FOILINGnews #49er #Contenders #Dinghy #Foiling #FormulaKiteClass #iQFOiL #Nacra #NAcra17 #Paris2024 #Sailing #WorldSailing

Insight into Running a Big Boat Program.  Brett: For something a little different from the normal sailboat racing tips I am speaking with Rod Hagebols, an extremely well-qualified professional sailor and accomplished sailing coach. A ##sail ##sailboatracing ##sailcoach ##sailfaster ##sailingcoach ##sailinglessons ##SailingSkills ##sailingtowin ##yachtrace ##yachtracing

I’m only half joking when I say that my life consists largely of two activities these days: work and junior sailing regattas. My son Sam is an accomplished junior sailor, and his sailing takes us all over the US and all over the world. The good news is that sailing regattas are usually in pretty nice places! This month he has the opportunity to train and compete against some of the best junior sailors from all over the world on Lake Garda in northern Italy. If you’ve never been, I highly recommend it. It’s a pretty magical place. Watching him compete, I’m struck by how sailboat racing and investing have a lot in common: 1. Unlike a lot of types of races, sailboat racing is not in a straight line or predetermined course.  Boats go in different directions at the start, and sometimes it’s hard to tell who is winning.  A boat that looks like it’s losing in the beginning might just have a different strategy that it thinks will win in the end. 2. Boat speed is important, but equally important is knowing when and how often to change direction.  Tack too much, and the friction could make you fall behind.  Tack too little, and you could lose key opportunities to get ahead of your competitors. 3. The best skill and strategy can still fall victim to bad luck.  With an unexpected shift in the wind, the boat that was winning the race can quickly find itself in last place! Happy Fourth of July weekend to everyone! (In this video, Sam is the blonde kid with USA written on his sail).

Now that the USA has won it’s first Olympic medal since 2016, most of us are scratching our heads about how the scoring works going into the Medal Race(s). Learn with this quick read: https://hubs.ly/Q02JX7bF0 #sailing #boating #olympics #yachting

Introducing… The Kiwi Cup Raffle! The Kiwi Cup is designed to support clubs, class associations, sailing teams, and school sailing teams across New Zealand, and we are super proud to be making this initiative come to life for our fellow clubs with some fabulous partners! With the support of Emirates Team New Zealand, we have been working with Live Sail Die on an exciting initiative that will benefit club, class association, sailing team or school sailing teams from throughout New Zealand in the coming months. Now it’s time to get your club, class association, sailing team or school sailing team registered to reap the rewards! We know fundraising is challenging, especially so in the current climate. We wanted to create something that gives back to the wider sailing community across New Zealand and creates an opportunity for all clubs etc. to fundraise, thus the Kiwi Cup Raffle was born. The Kiwi Cup Raffle is a unique initiative designed to support yacht clubs etc. across New Zealand, with the support of the Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron, Emirates Team New Zealand, Live Sail Die, and Yachting New Zealand. The Kiwi Cup Raffle offers tickets for a $20 donation into an amazing prize pool worth over $40,000. $10 of every ticket sale will go to the nominated club, class association, or team. The other $10 goes to the Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron to pay for the cost of the prizes, running the raffle, promotion and marketing, licensing etc. Any surplus once our costs are covered will be used to support the RNZYS youth activities, including our youth training weeks which attract and benefit sailors from throughout New Zealand. The Raffle details: The raffle opens 1st May 2024 and closes on the 20th July. The raffle will be drawn on Monday 29th July 2024. The main prize is a trip for two to Barcelona to watch the 37th America’s Cup, this package includes flights, 12 nights’ accommodation, several experiences and is valued at $35,690. The second prize is ETNZ Merchandise to the value of $1,000 The third prize is RNZYS Merchandise to the value of $1,000 The book buyer prize (for those that buy 5 or more tickets in one transaction) is ETNZ Merchandise for the whole family to the value of $3,000 Tickets are $20 each There is a maximum of 10,000 tickets With 10,000 tickets available for sale, there is the potential for clubs etc. across New Zealand to raise up to $100,000, an amount that will make a big difference to many throughout New Zealand! Plus, if we can sell the first 10,000 tickets across the sailing community by mid-June, we have the option to run a second raffle, with the exact same prizes and details, and with the potential to raise an additional $100,000 for our fellow sailing groups. The Kiwi Cup Raffle fundraising opportunity is open to Yacht Clubs, Class Associations, Sailing Teams, and School Sailing Teams/Groups

It is possible that more ski areas may follow Little Switzerland's lead in not offering mountain biking due to insurance issues. It is important for mountain biking enthusiasts to stay informed on any potential changes or updates from ski resorts regarding their summer activities. https://rec-law.us/43gqkea #NoInsurance #MountainBiking #MtnBike @RecreationLaw #CylingLaw #CyclistsNotInvisible #RecLaw #RecreationLaw