Byte CII and the Techno 293 are the Youth Olympic Sailing Classes for Singapore 2010 In the early summer of 2008, ISAF announced the selection of the Byte CII and the Techno 293 as the singlehanded boat and windsurfing for the boy’s and girl’s sailing events at the 1st Youth Olympic Games (YOG) to be held in Singapore in August 2010. ISAF has announced the details of the qualifying procedure for Countries seeking to qualify their sailors for the Games. 6 Continental regattas will be run between December 1, 2009 and May 31st, 2010. These will be open regattas but only those sailors from that Continent will be eligible to qualify. The number of berths open for each Continent, and other details, can be found on the ISAF website: http://www.sailing.org/27189.php In addition, the 2010 CII World Championship, which will be run after all the Qualifiers have been run, will be an OPEN regatta at which any Country that did not qualify in its Continental event can qualify for the additional 6 boy’s and 6 girl’s places available. The four YOG events in 2010 are: Boys and girls singlehanded – Byte CII Boys and girls Windsurfer – Bic Techno 293 |