EUROSAF Match Racing, European Open Championship, 2013
EUROSAF Meets with the Sails of the White Nights, in St Petersburg.
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The Sails of the White Nights - the National Congress Palace Cup, is one of the most famous regattas in Europe and marks the long tradition in Russia of celebrating the longest days of the year, when night changes to day. This year, part of this celebration includes the EUROSAF Match Racing, European Open Championship, which has attracted some of the top European match racers to compete for the prestigious Piraterne Trophy. This trophy was presented to EUROSAF by the Royal Danish Yacht Club - Kongelig Dansk Yachtklub and is awarded annually to the winner of the European Open Championship.
The Sails of the White Nights - the National Congress Palace Cup, takes place in a unique environment, right in the heart of the City of St Petersburg. The backdrop for the racing is the renowned Hermitage, with the equally famous Saint Isaac's Cathedral. The Hermitage was founded in 1764 by Catherine the Great and is now one of the largest and oldest museums in the world, having been open to the public since 1852.
Racing in the EUROSAF Match Racing, European Open Championship gets underway on Thursday, 30th May, with today allocated to team practice. Teams from 10 different countries are competing in what is an ISAF Grade 2 event. Amongst those competing is Eric Monnin from Switzerland, Mads Ebler from Denmark and Staffan Lindberg from Finland. The boats being used are "Santer-760" keel boats, which have an overall length of 7,6 m and are raced with a crew of three. The event format, as with most match racing events, is
• Stage 1 – Round-Robin(s)
• Stage 2 – Quarter Final – knock-out series
• Stage 3 – Semi-Finals – knock-out series
• Stage 4 – Final and Petit Final – knock-out series
The championship is scheduled to conclude on Sunday 2nd June.
Attending the event on behalf of EUROSAF in John Friend, the Secretary General, who when asked said “we are absolutely delighted to be in St Petersburg, in this unique sailing ‘theatre’ and to be partnering with the Sails of White Nights, St-Petersburg regional sport social organization and the St-Petersburg Yacht Club in this championship. We would particularly like to thank the Russian Yachting Federation for facilitating this arrangement, which will create a very different and exciting championship environment”.
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EUROSAF Match Racing, European Championships, 2013
EUROSAF announce the Notice of Race for the Women’s European Match Racing Championship, to be held in Gdynia, Poland, plus the addition of a new event for European Universities.
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EUROSAF is delighted to announce the publication of the Notice of Race for the EUROSAF Match Racing, Women’s European Championship, which is to be incorporated within the Volvo Gdynia Sailing Days, in Gdynia, Poland, from 17th to 21st July. Applications for entries for this ISAF Grade 2 event are invited from all interested sailors and EUROSAF Member National Authorities. Entries close on 15th June, 2013. Notice of Race published here
Joining the Women’s Championships this year are three other match racing events, the long established European Open Championship, the Youth European Championship (under 23 on 31st December 2103) and a brand new event, the EUROSAF University Sailing, European Match Racing Championship.
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With the first regatta in the EUROSAF Champions Sailing Cup now finished, attention turns to Medemblik in The Netherlands, where the Delta Lloyd Regatta commences on 21st May
Organised by the European Sailing Federation (EUROSAF), in association with five of the major regatta organisers in Europe, the new series offers Olympic, aspiring Olympic and Paralympic sailors, an opportunity to compete against the best sailors from around the world. Entries have been brisk for a new series, in a post-Olympic year, and include several Olympic medallists and a good number of world champions.
So far, approaching 1,000 sailors have entered across the first four regattas, including some famous names, so the standard of competition will be high.
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New European University Sailing Championship
EUROSAF encourages sailing, in all its forms, amongst younger people and to this end arranged the first EUROSAF Youth Sailing, European Championship in Aarhus, Denmark in 2012. The previous year they introduced the EUROSAF Match Racing, Youth European Championship, which was held in Marsala, in Sicily. Now, in 2013, we are delighted to be adding a third event for young sailors, the EUROSAF University Sailing, European Match Racing Championship.
In collaboration with CUS Trento and Associazione Vela Lago di Ledro, under the auspices of the International University Sports Federation (FISU) and in conjunction with the Centro Universitario Sportivo Italiano (CUSI), and the Italian Sailing Federation (FIV), The European Sailing Federation (EUROSAF) has today published the Notice of Race for this exciting new event.
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Oleg Illiyn (RUS) and Panayiotis Kontides (CYP) are re-elected as Vice-Presidents of EUROSAF
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During the 2013 EUROSAF General Assembly, hosted by the Romania Yachting Federation in Bucharest on 13th April, Oleg Illyin (Russia) and Panayiotis Kontides (Cyprus) were re-elected as Vice-Presidents, for another two years. Both of them were unanimously elected by the members present.
All those elected expressed their gratitude to the members for their continued confidence and for the opportunity to continue the work they had been progressing in recent years. They repeated their commitment to EUROSAF and to the development of sailing, and the improvement of the quality and standards throughout sailing competitions in Europe.
The complete Executive is as follows: President; Marco Predieri, Vice-Presidents; Rafa Gonzalez (Spain), Dan Ibsen (Denmark), Oleg Ilyin (Russia) and Panayiotis Kontides (Cyprus). Also members of the Executive are Andreas Denecke (Germany) and John Friend (GBR) as Secretary General. Co-opted members are Ruediger Schuchardt (Germany), Chairman of the Race Officials' Committee and Olivier Bovyn (France) Chairman of the EU Committee. |
A new championship for a growing discipline within European sailing.
From 21st to 23rd June this year, the Match and Team Sailing Centre in Lelystad, Holland, is organising the EUROSAF 2K Club Championship of Europe.This is a brand new sailing event, bringing together some of the top sailing clubs and sailors in Europe, for three days of two keelboat (2K) team racing. The championship is being held at the Batavia Sailing Centre, as part of the Batavia Regatta, an annual international keelboat event, sailed from Batavia Harbour at Lelystad.
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