World Yacht Racing Forum 2010 Round Up. Coming Soon.
Many of the who’s who of the yacht racing and sailing industry have been in Estoril this week for the World Yacht Racing forum. The topics ranged from the America’s Cup to the environmental credentials of yacht racing. The Extreme Sailing Series kicked it off on Monday night with an announcement of a new 9 event global tour and two days of speeches, debate and networking followed. Today, some are travelling back to their offices, getting ready for Christmas and others are playing golf in Portugal. We’ve got pages and pages of notes and insights from the World Yacht Racing...
Read More2010 World Yacht Racing Forum – Ready for Business.
The who’s who of yacht racing and sailing in deal-making mode. The 2010 World Yacht Racing Forum is only days away from opening to delegates from the industry in Estoril, Portugal. The event will in parallel with the Yacht Racing Design and Technology Symposium and second International Superyacht Coatings Conference. After 2 years of successful conferences in Monaco, the 201o WYRF will host over 300 delegates and 50 speakers. The only real-world gathering of the Yacht Racing industry will attract yacht racing media, Ocean race athletes, America’s Cup deal-makers, regatta and...
Read MoreNorth Sails Partner with Yacht Racing Design & Technology Symposium
How are 3DL North Sails Made? Delegates attending a Yacht Racing conference in Portugal will get to find out… Informa Yacht Group, part of the larger Informa Sports Group is running a couple of yacht racing specific conferences in Estoril in December. Alongside the World Yacht Racing Forum, which focusses on the business of yacht racing, including sailing sponsorship, will be the Yacht Racing Design & Technology Symposium (YRDTS). The YRDTS has announced that sail-maker North Sails will become a Gold Partner of the event to be held from the 14-15th of December. The Yacht Design and...
Read MoreWin A Corum Watch at World Yacht Racing Forum.
[cleeng_content id="919043029" description="99 cents or 10,000 hours. The path to being an expert can be easy or hard. " price="0.99"]How do you activate a sponsorship of a business to business event but still allude to your sailing sponsorship activities elsewhere around the world? Well if you are Corum, the Swiss watchmaker you could host a Virtual regatta and use a well known sailor like Loick Peyron to drag delegates away from their lunch and networking. The World Yacht Racing Forum, which brings together the Who’s Who of the yacht racing industry, has announced that Corum will be...
Read MoreAndrew Pindar On Yacht Racing’s Environmental Credentials.
Almost every sponsorship proposal looking for backing for yacht racing includes a bullet point or a slide about how the sport is environmentally friendly. Sure the main power source for the yachts is the wind, but what about the bigger picture? How many gallons of diesel are swallowed during an America’s Cup or Volvo Ocean Race start; how clean is it to build a boat; how many crewmembers are flown from New Zealand to the major sailing events? [cleeng_content id="818652827" description="99 cents or 10,000 hours. The path to being an expert can be easy or hard. " price="0.99"]The World Yacht...
Read MoreDee Caffari’s Tips on Sailing Sponsorship.
Sailing Sponsorship Lessons from one of the UK’s top Open 6o Skippers. [cleeng_content id="209190166" description="99 cents or 10,000 hours. The path to being an expert can be easy or hard. " price="0.99"]While the business of yacht racing covers many commercial aspects, a large part of it is dependent on corporate sponsorship. Like most sports, there are more participants and rights-owners than there are sponsors, so differentiating yourself by having a working knowledge of what sailing sponsors are looking for and how they can activate and get the most return on investment (ROI) and...
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