The sport of yacht racing is a broad church. Some people love the Olympic classes, some people are into offshore solo racing, some crewed. Some people like breaking records, some people like match racing. While the Category pages in the main menu allow you to browse news from different events and classes and countries, we’ve developed a couple of special pages for specific events.
Yacht Sponsorship Business News Sections
- Business News and Opinion from the America’s Cup. – Perhaps the most well known sailing event. The America’s Cup has been the goal of billionaires for over 150 years. The world’s oldest sporting trophy has suffered legal court cases and farcical years when competitors have been unable to reach ‘mutual consent’ over the document that governs the cup – the Deed of Gift. In 2010, America won back the cup after the BMW ORACLE team, owned by Larry Ellison and run by Russell Coutts beat Swiss Defender Alinghi in a mismatched race on giant multihulls. Huge changes to the format have been announced and sponsorship of the America’s Cup will have a huge impact on sailing and yacht racing in the near future. More…
- Volvo Ocean Race News. – This offshore yacht race has everything. Great commercial strategy, good media offerings, exciting boats and stopovers in multiple ports around the World. The Volvo Ocean Race offers something for fans, sponsors and sailors with brands like ABN AMRO, Telefonica, PUMA and Ericsson using the race to promote their products and services. The next edition of the race will feature stopovers in Abu Dhabi, China and Galway. More…
- World Match Racing Tour – The winner of the WMRT is crowed the ISAF World Champion of Match Racing. It is the only annual global series that visits multiple continents and until recently has been the path for America’s Cup skippers who wanted to be the best match racers in the world. Skippers like Russell Coutts, Ed Baird, Magnus Holmberg and Peter Gilmour have built great sailing careers on success in the World Match Racing Tour. Up and coming skippers include Adam Minoprio, Torvar Mirsky and Ian Williams. More…
- World Yacht Racing Forum – For the last few years, the Informa Sports Group have organised a conference for the who’s who of the business of yacht racing to discuss the commercial aspects of the sport of sailing. Topics have included return on investment for sponsors, economic impact of hosting major sailing events, developments in the media and structural issues around rights management and technology. Delegates from all the major yacht racing series attend. Yachtsponsorship.com is a media partner of the World Yacht Racing Forum and this page collects our coverage and opinions from the event. More…
- Extreme Sailing Series – Once known as the iShares Cup, this yacht racing event for Extreme 40 catamarans has grown from a European series to a more global yacht race. Run by OC Thirdpole, the events are designed to entertain and to give sponsors massive return on investment. The 5th man concept, which allows VIP Guests to ride aboard the boats during the race is an unforgettable experience that has been copied by other sailing rights holders. The Extreme Sailing Series is fast and exciting and a great model for the future of the sport. More…
- Sailing and Yacht Racing Business News from the UK. – The UK has some of the most competitive sailing in the world. The Solent is packed with famous races including the Annual Cowes Week and Round the Island Race. The Royal Ocean Racing Club (RORC) organises the challenging offshore Fastnet Race and the country will hold the Olympic sailing at Portland and Weymouth in 2012. The UK produces great offshore competitors like Dee Caffari and Sam Davies, Olympic champions like Ben Ainslie and record breaking maxi campaigns like Mike Slade’s ICAP Leopard. Despite all this, the UK has never been successful at winning back the America’s Cup that began around the Isle of Wight in 1851.
