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The sailing season starts in St. Petersburg!

Randall G. Lucchesi

May 30, 2019       The sailing season starts in St. Petersburg!       A press conference is devoted to this, which will be held on June 4 at 14.00 in the Media Center of the Government of St. Petersburg (Zvenigorodskaya St., 22). In 2019, the Northern Capital will host the RS: X (Windsurfing) Junior World Sailing Championship for the first time. In addition, there will be one of the largest yachting festivals of Russia “Baltic Yacht Week”, the stage of the European Champions Read more

Decisive season

Randall G. Lucchesi

February 9, 2019       Decisive season       The world famous sailing race “Mini-Transat 2019” (Mini Transat) starts on September 22 in the French La Rochelle. This year, as we have repeatedly told, two Russians will take part at once – Irina Gracheva and Fyodor Druzhinin. On yachts only 6.5 meters long, athletes have to overcome more than 4,000 nautical miles alone, including 1,350 miles in the first stage to the Canary Islands and 2,700 miles – on the Atlantic crossing. Note that Read more

In St. Petersburg kicks off the sailing season!

Randall G. Lucchesi

This is dedicated to the press conference which will be held June 4 at 14.00 in the media center of Saint-Petersburg Government (Zvenigorodskaya street, D. 22). In 2019, the Northern capital for the first time will host the world championship in sailing in the class RS:X (Windsurfing) championship. In addition, there will be one of the largest yacht festivals in Russia “Baltic yacht week” stage of the European sailing Champions League, Saint-Petersburg sailing week, the National sailing League regatta Nord Read more

“Let's go home, open the summer season!”

Randall G. Lucchesi

May 6, 2019       “Let's go home, open the summer season!”       You probably already know that St. Petersburg's Elena Kalinina won silver at the World Kiteboarding Championships. Russians in the team standings are third On May 5, at Lake Garda, the next world kiteboarding championship, a discipline in which athletes move across the surface of the water using a kite, a type of paraglider, ended. Athlete of the Academy of Sailing Elena Kalinina, who won silver, summed up on her facebook Read more

“Let’s go home, to open the summer season!”

Randall G. Lucchesi

You probably already know that the lady Elena Kalinina won silver at the world Championships in kiteboarding. In command offset Russians third 5 may on lake Garda ended the next world Cup kiteboarding, a discipline in which athletes glide on the water surface using a kite, a kind of paraglider. Athlete Academy sailing Elena Kalinina, who won the silver, summed up on his Facebook page: “Yesterday on lake Garda ended the world championship for kiteboarding. I took second place in Read more

Decisive season

Randall G. Lucchesi

World-famous sailing race “Mini Transat 2019” (Mini Transat) starts September 22 in the French La Rochelle. This year, as we have told, will involve at once two Russians – Irina Gracheva and Fyodor Druzhinin. On yachts with a length of only 6.5 meters, the athletes have to overcome a couple of more than 4000 nautical miles, including 1350 miles on the first stage to the Canary Islands and 2700 miles – crossing the Atlantic. Note that the performance of Irina Read more

New season of Camp RZR will be hot!

Randall G. Lucchesi

In December in St. Petersburg in the office of the organizer of the race series CAMP RZR — company Brandt — a meeting was held where all stakeholders could Express their wishes and constructive suggestions on how to make race of the season 2019 more entertaining and safe. The meeting was attended by permanent members — representatives of the classes of ATV and Side-by-Side, the chief justice, members of regional dealerships, and also representatives of the media and theme forums. Read more

All-Russian sailing Federation has summed up the season

Randall G. Lucchesi

The winners of the award “yachtsman of the year — 2018”, established the all-Russian sailing Federation (ryf), November 26, received their well-deserved awards. In the Moscow concert hall “Mir” honored the winners in ten categories, including “yachtsman of the year”, “Yachtswoman of the year, team of the year” and “Team National sailing League”. The best athletes of last season on the results of a public vote on the website of the WFTU recognized the bronze medalist of the summer youth Read more

From “teapot” to “Man of the year”: PROyachting sums up the season

Randall G. Lucchesi

The company PROyachting November 20 award winners in the regattas of the Royal Yacht Club, yacht J70 and summing up the season. The most striking boaters and event organizers plan to celebrate in eight nominations: “Children’s coach of the year”, “Sailing event of the year”, “Kettle of the year”, “discovery of the year”, “light sailing”, “Photo of the year, Philanthropist of the year” and “man of the year”. The leader of the weekly regatta Wednesday Night Race — 2018, which Read more

PROyachting: results evening regattas of the season-2018

Randall G. Lucchesi

On Tuesday and Wednesday, 2 and 3 October, hosted the final evening of the regatta series of races on the Water stadium, organized by the project PROyachting. In a series of Wednesday Night Race win ahead was taken by the No Pasaran (163 points), silver took the Trem (153 points), bronze — Angels (127 points). No Pasaran, the team won not only the championship trophy but also the trophy of the season — watch series Marine Torpilleur from the Swiss Read more