The Real Event

This July, Dublin Bay will host the Four Star Pizza ISAF Youth Sailing World Championship - the world’s premier event for youth sailing.
The ISAF Youth Worlds was first held in Sweden in 1971 and has taken place every year since.
The 2012 ISAF Youth Sailing World Championship in Dublin Bay, Ireland will celebrate the 42nd year of the event.Throughout its history, the ISAF Youth Worlds has visited over 20 nations, covering every continent, and over 100 different nations have competed. France is currently the most successful nation, winning the Volvo Trophy on a record 10 occasions and holding a record 62 medals: 20 Gold, 27 Silver and 15 Bronze.

The Virtual Event

The “Virtual ISAF Youth Sailing World Championships” is a virtual fleet-race regatta that is OPEN TO EVERYONE regardless of age.
Throughout the championship two rankings will be produced. The first ranking will include ALL individuals taking part. The second ranking will only include those entrants who meet the official ISAF ‘YOUTH’ age classification as per the Official Notice of race for the 42nd ISAF Youth Sailing World Championship 2012 (i.e. under the age of 19 years on 31 December 2012).
The winning individual in the ‘Youth’ classification will be awarded with the “Virtual ISAF Youth Sailing World Championships Trophy”.

The Championship takes place in four phases - as follows:

Stage 1 (Practice), Mon 7th May – Sun 20th May
Stage 2, Mon 21st May – Sun 3rd June
Stage 3, Mon 4th June – Sun 17th
Stage 4, Mon 18th June – Sun 1st July

Five x 4-race regattas will be raced every day at 0400, 1000, 1700, 1900 & 2130 GMT
All racing will be run in the virtual “Dublin Bay” field.

Mediterranean Sailing Meeting, just finished!

Club Náutico El Balís presented the Mediterranean Sailing Meeting, a multiclass regatta held on May which borns with the challenge to keep on with the great environment achieved at the first #MedSailing as well as at the last Catalan Sailing Week editions.

With international vocation, the Mediterranean Sailing Meeting wants to count on with the best sailors of our nation and with the important international teams participation. You can’t miss it!

And in SailX we've done a virtual regatta to celebrate it!.

* During two months we had 2 'special' regattas every week, tuesdays and fridays at the usual EURO daily regattas and with the typical format for dailies.

* Coeficient will be 3.0, restricted to registered users and keeping a separate classification.

* Event ran till May 8th and winners to get subscription rights and mentions in the real event.

* Best 3 european sailors will get a real trophy too.

The event page will contain more info.

To know more about the real event go to http://medsailingmeeting.com

To know more about El Balís, an active sailing club in the north of the Spanish Med cost go to their page

New Version in ALL fields

ALL FIELDS ARE NOW RUNNING THE NEW VERSION

Summarizing:

- Trapezoid courses are supported

- New 420 boat

- Icons subscribers

- 3D client now supports all courses (fleet, trapezoid, teamd and match)

- Subscribers can vote (only 2D and 3D-standalone at the moment) both the course and the boat type

Subscribers can download and install the new version from this links: WINDOWS and MAC OS/X

Mitsubishi Youth National Championship Salix Virtual Regatta Finished

Mitsubishi Youth National Championship SailX Virtual Regatta

In April (12th-15th) over 400 sailors have competed in Dublin Bay in seven different classes (Laser Radial, Laser 4.7, 420, Feva, Topper, 29er and Optimist).

For youth sailors, this event is the most important in the annual calendar as it is the decider for the top Irish sailors to compete internationally during 2012 and is the pathway for future Olympic sailors.

Not only will the ISA Mitsubishi Youth Nationals be an important event for youth sailors it is also a major milestone for the organisers of the ISAF Youth Worlds 2012 as it offers them the opportunity to finalise the logistics of managing such a large event incorporating three clubs, three race courses and hundreds of volunteers.

Event Website: http://www.dublinbay2012.com/mitsubishi2012/

In SailX we have run daily races these same days.

4 regattas (4 races each) with high coef. at 15:00, 17:00, 19:00 and 22:30

A classification counting the best 4 regatta results for every sailor has been generated, subscription prizes for best 5 sailors. All the related info will be in the Event Page

FINAL CLASSIFICATION

#	Sailor	Country	Total
1	Luksen	Germany	671
2	Bluenose	Canada	526
3	flow	United States of America	472
4	greg77515	United Kingdom	458
5	raeli	Poland	301
6	Woody	United States of America	232
7	249	Peru	180
8	rainbow_warrior	New Zealand	177
9	fablog	Italy	159
10	paulvt	United States of America	151

SalX Collection

Subscribers can now download a first version of SailX Collection.

The best racelets, the protested incidents can now be run locally, no Internet connection needed. The first version is lacking some 'nice' features that are at the moment being tested in our lab:

- Get-a-boat, you can get the control of ANY boat in the replay and try to improve or to avoid the mistakes

- Auto update, to download any replay you have an interest in.

Installation Instructions:

1. Download the package, be patient, it is a 150Mb zip file!

2. Unzip into a directory/folder of your choice

3. Start any decent browser (Chrome, Firefox, Safari or IE9 for instance) and load the file index.html that was unzipped. Voilà!

Subscribers con download the thing here ->Sorry, you are NOT a subscriber

1st Todoregatas Event Finished

I Criterium Virtual de Vela TodoRegatas Completed

TodoRegatas.com one of the leading sites dedicated to sailing in Spain organized the the 1st single-class event in SailX the past March 27, 28 and 29th.