Global festivals for women’s sailing

The fifth edition of World Sailing’s global women’s sailing festival, Steering the Course, will reaffirm the federation’s commitment to creating new pathways at all levels of the sport for talented female sailors, coaches, and officials.

Two global festivals will be held in 2025, with the first to take place from May 23-June 1 and the second later on September 26-October 5, to allow as many nations as possible to be involved.

Events and activities will be organized around the world to introduce sailing to a new audience and demonstrate the opportunities available within the sport.

To add your event to the global calendar, click here.

World Sailing will also be funding Technical Courses for sailing instructors, club race coaches, and performance coaches, as well as race official clinics to introduce race management, umpiring, judging, and race measurement to countries where there is no formal certification.

Across the two previous years of the program, courses and activities have been held in Bolivia, Barbados, Brazil, Bahamas, Greece, Grenada, Japan, St Vincent & the Grenadines, UAE, and Uruguay.

“To date, 56 countries have participated in or ran activities as part of Steering the Course, and we would love to keep that number growing,” said Fiona Kidd, World Sailing’s Head of International Development.

“We are encouraging Sailing Clubs, Centres, Member National Authorities (MNAs), Class Associations and volunteers to sign up to host activities as part of the two key festival times. This could be through creating more opportunities for women to train as Race Officials, creating new activities in a program to bring in new women members or just by making a more inclusive club.”

For more information about Steering the Course, click here.

Source: World Sailing