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Royal Southern Yacht Club appoints Press Officer The Hamble-based Royal Southern Yacht Club has retained the services of marine industry PR specialist and experienced event press officer, Peta Stuart-Hunt. The appointment is with immediate effect and Stuart-Hunt’s PR Works consultancy will assist the Club’s marketing team in shaping and directing its media and communications campaign, covering [...]

Yachting New Zealand CEO Steps Down.

Des Brennan, the CEO of Yachting New Zealand has announced that he will leave the organisation at the end of September. He will take up a new role as Marketing Director for New Zealand Trade and Enterprise. Brennan said: ‘My time as Chief Executive has been exciting and greatly rewarding. Sport is a special enterprise [...]

Walker and Boag Announced as Abu Dhabi Volvo Ocean Race Principals.

While we were down in Cowes, there were some big sailing business stories announced. The Abu Dhabi Tourism Authority (ADTA) has announced ‘officially’  that two-time British Olympic medallist and past Volvo Ocean Race skipper, Ian Walker, will take the helm for the emirate’s debut in the next edition of the race. Walker’s business partner Jamie [...]

Appointments: LOCOG Announce Core Olympic Sailing Team

We don’t normally cut and paste articles, but this one from the official ISAF site is fairly self explanatory. The London 2012 Organising Committee (LOCOG) has appointed its core Sailing team which will deliver the Olympic and Paralympic Sailing events at Weymouth and Portland in the summer of 2012. Each member of the four person [...]

Sharon Tuff Joins the Volvo Ocean Race Commercial Team.

Despite the UK having lost the HQ of the Volvo Ocean Race to Alicante, the event is keen to try and raise sponsorship revenue from the market. Organisers have continued the pattern of recruiting a commercial team from outside of sailing, announcing that Sharon Tuff has joined the Volvo Ocean Race as Head of Commercial [...]

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