Welcome to Sailing Zone. A place where I will be posting my favorite sailing photos, links, thoughts, books, curiosities...anything and everything about this passion of mine.
Sometimes you happen to find a great sailing video, photo or article...sometimes...
Well I just found what is in my opinion one of the best (if not the best) and more professional video for a sailing team.
It's from an Hungarian Team called Principessa Sailing Team, and here is their fantastic video
Of course they also have their great own website here and also a very good Facebook page constantly updated.
Don't miss out their sites, videos and photos.
Every professional sailing team (in fact any team or professional athlete) should learn one or two things with these guys! A great Marketing lesson on the importance of communicate with your audiences and targets and provide your sponsors with a great ROI.
Thank you and well done boys!
Act 4 of the Extreme Sailing Series 2012 will be staged between the 5th to 8th July, making its debut in Portugal, this time in the city of Porto.
Eight teams with 40 of the world ́s best sailors from 9 nationalities
will line up on the starting grid for four days of
intense competition.
Yes, we can find Endeavour right now in the Tejo River, in Lisbon.
Endeavour is a 130-foot (40 m) J-class yacht built for the 1934 America's Cup by Camper and Nicholson in England. She was built for Thomas Sopwith
who used his aviation design expertise to ensure the yacht was the most
advanced of its day with a steel hull and mast. She was launched in
1934 and won many races in her first season. She failed in her America's Cup challenge against the American defender Rainbow but came closer to lifting the cup than any other until Australia II succeeded in 1983. Source: Wikipedia
Portugal will be represented by 13 sailing athletes, competing in some diferent classes like the 49ers, Laser, 470, Sailboard, Laser Radial, Star and Elliott 6m.
Of course we are also following the La Solitaire du Figaro 2012 where our only professional single-handed sailor is competing right now. Força Francisco!
Here some footage from 2011.
Back into May this year I went to Cascais, in Portugal, to follow this Audi MedCup opening race. I took some photos and for some reason I really like this one that I took with my iPhone.
22 days to go for this exceptional test of sailing prowess and human endeavour. Starting in Alicante on the 29th October 2011 and ending in Galway on the 7th July 2012, this will be an exciting race with full worldwide media coverage and an ambitious marketing and promotional plan.
Only 6 teams competing but what a great adventure!
Right now teams are heading to Cape Town.
And my favorite team is...Financial Crisis...how appropriate. Also their mascot seems to be having great fun racing in the oceans!
According to Sailing Anarchy, "Clubby the seal", the mascot on board "Financial Crisis", last night went off on a violent rampage after reading a media report calling him a "soft toy".
