Swiss Sailing

Swiss Sailing
Club data
Founded:	1939
Address:	Haus des Sports Talgutzentrum 27 3036 Ittigen near Bern
Website:	www.swiss-sailing.ch

Swiss Sailing is the Swiss professional association for sailing on yachts, dinghies, multihulls, windsurfers , kite sailing and remote-controlled model yachts.

The aim and purpose of the professional association is to promote and support Swiss sailing in all its forms. As a target group, Swiss Sailing focuses on popular and competitive sports. The office in Ittigen near Bern, together with the management of the association, is responsible for popular sports and non-Olympic competitive sports. Competitive Olympic sport, on the other hand, has been outsourced to Swiss Sailing Team AG, based in Dietikon, Zurich, since 2005.

At the national level, Swiss Sailing is one of around 90 national Olympic and non-Olympic sports associations under the umbrella of Swiss Olympic , the national Olympic association. At the international level, Swiss Sailing is a member of World Sailing (formerly ISAF). World Sailing is the international umbrella organization for sailing and is therefore responsible for promoting sailing on an international level.

competitive sport

In 2006, Swiss Sailing outsourced the “Competitive Sports” department, including all tasks and obligations, to Swiss Sailing Team AG , or SST for short. The primary task of SST is to organize and promote Olympic sailing and the youngsters in the junior classes defined by Swiss Sailing.

The main task of SST is to create professional structures so that Swiss sailors can regularly win medals at the Olympic Games and continental championships. SST creates the necessary framework conditions so that all supported athletes can develop their personal best and call it up to the point. The support consists of a tiered elite and young talent promotion concept based on agreed objectives and existing resources.

Popular sport

It is important to Swiss Sailing that access to sailing, windsurfing and kitesurfing is open to everyone, whether they are recreational or professional sailors. Surfer or regatta sailor. The basis for popular sport and the basic training of young people in sailing are the junior departments of the clubs, training offers for individual boat classes and training for leaders in the sports subjects of sailing and windsurfing by Youth & Sport (J&S) and adult sports Switzerland (esa). Swiss Sailing supports popular sport and youth work in the regions materially, financially and with advice. With regular junior training and regattas, the clubs are supposed to make the entry into the sailing sport attractive and thus create a broad basis for securing the future, according to the principle "Without popular sport there is no competitive sport".

The promotion of sailing, windsurfing and kitesurfing, both in popular and competitive sports, is anchored in Art. 4 of the Swiss Sailing Association statutes. This states that Swiss Sailing aims to promote and support Swiss sailing in all its facets. To achieve this goal, Swiss Sailing can work with legal entities or Organizations that also promote sailing enter into strategic partnerships. One of these partnerships concerns the non-profit, non-profit boat sharing organization Sailbox, which enables its members to share more than 30 mOcean yachts of the same type on twelve Swiss lakes.

Regional associations

Swiss Sailing is divided into the following geographical regions:

1. Lac Léman and Lac de Joux
2. Jura lakes
3. Lake Thun and Lake Brienz
4. Central Switzerland
5. Zurich lakes, Obersee and Sihlsee
6. Lake Constance and the Rhine
7. Walensee and Graubünden
8. Ticino
9. Coastal waters and high seas

The clubs of a geographic region are united in a regional association of Swiss Sailing.

Clubs and classes

Members of Swiss Sailing are on the one hand Swiss sailing and yacht clubs and on the other hand recognized classes of boats and surfboards. Around 140 clubs are affiliated to the professional association for sailing in Switzerland, divided into nine regions. At the moment there are a little over 40 classes that are affiliated to the professional association for sailing in Switzerland.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Swiss-Sailing: About us. Retrieved January 22, 2018 . 
2. ↑ Excerpt from Art. 4 of the statutes of the Swiss Sailing Association for the purpose of "Swiss Sailing" ( Memento of the original from November 15, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
3. ^ Accueil Lac Léman et Lac de Joux
4. ↑ Homepage Juraseen ( Memento of the original from April 16, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
5. ↑ Homepage of Lake Thun and Lake Brienz
6. ↑ Central Switzerland homepage
7. ↑ Homepage Zurich lakes, Obersee and Sihlsee
8. ↑ Homepage Bodensee und Rhein ( Memento of the original from March 23, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
9. ^ Homepage Ticino
10. ↑ Homepage coastal waters and high seas
11. ^ Swiss-Sailing: Clubs. Retrieved January 22, 2018 . 
12. ^ Swiss Sailing: Classes. Retrieved January 22, 2018 . 

Web links

• Swiss Sailing website
• Swiss Sailing Team AG website