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The Cayman Islands Sailing Club and National Sailing Centre (www.sailing.ky) held its 1st CII Clinic March 14-18 as part of the annual Cayman Sailing Clinic. Seven CII sailors participated from Canada, Barbados, Jamaica, Singapore, and the Cayman Islands.  The clinic was run by Jon Emmett, British sailing coach and 2008 CII World Champion.

The Official NOR is on the Byte Championship website www.bytechamps.org and registration is now open.

First to register has been Alex Davis of Bermuda seen below already training in the hopes of qualifying Bermuda for the first Youth Olympic Games (YOG) in Singapore, 2010. The North American Qualifier (NAQ) will be held in Cayman in March of 2010 but Alex sees the 2009 World Championship at CORK as a good opportunity to get up to speed in the Class and Singapore has also indicated it is sending a team of up to 12 sailors to the World’s.

World’s Charter boats are available from PS2000 on a first come, first served, basis and details can be found at www.bytechamps.org/pages/charter.asp

In the NAQ for the YOG, only four countries will be selected from amongst the North American and Caribbean countries. Both one male and one female spot are open to each country making for 8 places total. Charter boats will be available in Cayman. Inquiries to Peter Bjorn - peter@ps2000.ca

Warm-up Regatta - Aug 19-21, 2009 / Worlds - Aug 22-27, 2009
Venue:  Portsmouth Olympic Harbour, Kingston, Ontario, Canada

In the early summer of 2008, ISAF announced the selection of the Byte CII as the singlehanded boat 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

As more details become available they will be posted here. In the meantime, check out the YOG section of this website for the preliminary qualifications schedule and a list of 2009/2010 international CII events.

Current CII World Champion and GBR sailing coach Jon Emmett will be running a CII clinic in the Cayman Islands from March 14-18, 2009. We welcome all CII sailors to join us in the hot and sunny Caribbean.  There are a limited number of charter boats available on a first come first served basis.  Please contact Mike Weber at sailing@sailing.ky for more information.