The French Sailing Federation FFV is about to launch a series of educational video to keep in contact with the sailing community during the Coronavirus lockdown. ----- The announcement. We shall keep you info
Actually, Nils Theuninck SUI would be in action at the Genoa World Cup event next week in the fight for the last Olympic starting place for Tokyo. Well, the Corona break messed up the international sailing program. Nils has used his time to redesign his website.
Up-to-now, Matthew Sheahan GBR was responsible for the monthly video magazine "World Sailing Show", a compilation of content available from organizers and various other sources published by World Sailing. With "Planet Sail", he has now launched his own Video Magazine. Here the inaugural edition (27 min).
Despite the total standstill of the international and national regatta scene, there is still a lot to report: numerous sailing films are being newly published, new eSailing events are popping up everywhere (we will inform you in good time) and numerous webinars train on various topics, from the equipment up to the racing rules and related tactics. ----- Our readership numbers have only declined slightly in the first weeks of the pandemic, and remain fortunately at a high level. It remains worth stopping by every day as all kinds of interesting information on our sport will be entertaining during the lockdown. ----- While the editorial work remains high, the financing of our website through advertising business has come to a complete halt, in spite of the fact, that www.sailing-news.com remains the most important web portal to the nautical target market in Switzerland. But it might be the time now for Clubs and Classes to enrich their websites with our news. We remain up-to-date with all available news on our sport, including class and club information. So why not add our news feed on your club or class website, a service available at affordable rates? ----- In the coming months, we will have to survive almost exclusively from your support and our fundraising campaign is more important as ever. After a hesitant start this year, this has now slowly started to move - thanks very much to all patrons, keeping these pages alive!
The regatta calendar of the most active Laser Class has to be updated continuously following the many postponements and cancellations of events due to the Coronacrises. Three European Championships have been postponed and three Europa-Cups canceled, among them Lugano SUI, with many more to come inevitably. ----- The report.
Due to the Corona pandemic with its unpredictable end, the A-Cat class decided to postpone its major championships by one year. The European Championship is to take place à Cadiz ESP in June 2021, the World Championship in St.Petersburg FL, USA will follow in October. ----- The news.
Nature will be hitting back also with an above-average number of Hurricanes in 2020, the season to begin in early June. The respective forecast for the Atlantic Ocean has just been published. Because of the higher water temperatures around the Equator, 14-18 storms must be expected, 2-4 of them in the highest category. ----- The news with a video.
As we informed two days ago on the base of the announcement of NHK, the host broadcaster of the Tokyo Olympics, the new dates of the Olympic Games 2020, to be held in 2021, are July 22 until August 9. Sailing will take place from July 26 till August 6. ----- The official program and the news from World Sailing.
In collaboration with World Sailing, Virtual Sailing yesterday announced the continuation of the Olympic season 2020 as planned. At least on the screen! The Trofeo Princesa Sofia in Palma (participation is still possible) is already underway. Next week, you can participate in the Genoa World Cup, and in June, the Kiel Week will follow. ----- The news, and the inscription link.
The British Youth Team is launching a series of training films in cooperation with the National Squad to prepare for the regatta season from home. The first episode features the 470 Olympic medalists Luke Patience/Chris Grube GBR and windsurfer Saskia Sills. The first episode today at 12 CET (11 GMT) on the Youtube channel of the British Sailing Teams. The news.
Banished from the water during the Corona crises, homeschooling is also the name of the came for sail training sessions. As of today, North Sails is offering regular training in the form of webinars: Tonight from 9pm UTC (4pm EST), the J/70 cracks Tim Healy USA, Ruairidh Scott USA and Allan Terhune USA will explain what it takes to have a good boat speed. Here the program of the coming days.
The postponement of the Olympic Games is very expensive for the Organizing Authorities, and as a consequence also for the IOC. Missing or delayed sponsor money will have a major impact on the revenue streams of the IOC and with it also the quadrennial payments to the International Sports Federations, the major income for small Federations to run their operations. Extremely affected is the financially mismanaged World Sailing that spent the 2016 money by the end of last year already. The situation will be tight. A must-read comment by Sailing Illustrated.
With the cancellation of all national and international regattas by at least the end of April, a difficult period will be to overcome. Well, sailing is a diverse sport, and we will do our utmost to keep our pages interesting by gathering more background reports, videos and of course everything you need tco know about the Olympic Games or the America's Cup in the next few weeks. Check in with us every day! ----- Deliver content is one, financing the operation is the more critical part for our web portal. In the near future, we must live with the situation that the urgently needed advertisers are delaying decisions to renew and book promotion banners and texts, inspite of the fact, that our website offers by far the best and fastest access to the nautical target market compared with other media in Switzerland. ----- For the next two months, we badly need voluntary subscription fees and donations to overcome this critical period with many contributions to our fundraising campaign. Your help is urgently needed! Many thanks in advance.
France is undoubtedly the heart of offshore sail racing, an attractive playing field for a large community of professional and amateur sailors. Well run and initiative Class Organisations (Figaro, IMOCA, 650Mini, etc) ensure potential major sponsors that their investments are paying and sustainable. On top of this - and key - are race organisers such as OC Sport Pen Duick, launched in 1998 by Ellen MacArthur and Mark Turner for Ellen's Offshore Challenges. ------ Hervé Favre SUI, President and Offshore Sailing Events Director, gives an overview of major offshore events in the present Corona crisis situation. An interview published on the 'Tip and Shaft' website.
Yesterday, World Sailing published the updated Olympic Classes World Ranking after the various World Championships down under. In four classes, new names are on top of the classifications. -----
We report daily about the cancellations of international and national regattas. There is a total break until at least the end of April. World Sailing published a provisional calendar yesterday. The next big event that has not (yet) been canceled or postponed is the 470 European Championships in Hyères. The news.
Yesterday, Japanese Prime Minister Abe Shinzo JPN and IOC President Thomas Bach GER announced that the Tokyo 2020 Olympics will be postponed to 2021. In view of the widening Corona crisis, this decision was to be expected and was also unanimously welcomed. The IOC-Communiqué. ----- World Sailing is fully supporting this decision. In the short term, the pending Olympic qualification events for Africa, Asia or Europe will be delayed. Together with the IOC, an updated qualification system will be established with events in late 2020 or early 2021.The news
With the cancellation of the two European AC World Series Events in Cagliari ITA and Portsmouth GBR, the already reduced program of the America's Cup has been even further limited. Only at the end of 2020, the four teams will meet for the first time at the Auckland World Series, too late to make any changes in the boat designs after a direct comparison with opponents on the water. In January 2021, the Prada Cup, the Challenger Series to determine the team to face the Cup defender 'Team New Zealand' for the Cup fight in early March 2021, will already begin. ----- For the moment, the Kiwis are the most affected by this situation as their AC75 is on a cargo ship to Europe. However, their smaller training boat will allow continuing the training on a high level. As far as the design of the allowed second boat is concerned, all teams are in a similar situation, as no live race tests have been possible.
The postponement of the Olympic Games in July / August this year is getting closer. Numerous countries have already asked the IOC to do so. Yesterday Canada, a major sports nation, has announced that it will not send any athletes to Tokyo, if the games take place this year. The Communiqué, ------- The International Olympic Committee wants to keep an eye on developments and decide soon. A shift brings major logistical problems: Among other things, the Olympic village has already been sold to private individuals, and a new solution for the accommodation of around 10,000 athletes would have to be found in 2021 ... to name just one of the problems. The news.
After the 470 Oceania Championship three weeks ago, it became clear that Oceania would not use its 2020 Olympic Nations berth. Linda Fahrni/Maja Siegenthaler SUI, who missed the nations limit by one rank at the 2019 Worlds, qualified therefore Switzerland for the Games. As final barrier for the selection remains the fulfillment of the Swiss Olympic requirement, a 12th race rank in a specified top event. Where and when is still open after all major 470 regattas of the season have been canceled or postponed. The Swiss spent an intensive training winter on Lanzarote. ----- Here the Newsletter (PDF) with the latest information on their Olympia campaign.
