"For the inaugural Youth Olympic Games to be held this August in Singapore, the Techno 293 windsurfer and the Byte CII dinghy will be used for the boys and girls events. If you have never before seen the Byte CII singlehanded dinghy, here is great footage from their European Championship held at the ultra great Lake Garda in Italy. Plus what’s not to like about a video that opens up with music from Aerosmith (‘Rag Doll’) and AC/DC (‘Back in Black’)?"  (excerpted from Scuttlebutt, July 9, 2010)

Click here for the video: http://www.sailingscuttlebutt.com/media/10/0709/

The international world of sailing was well represented at this weekend's Byte Europeans, held at Fraglia Vela Riva, Italy. Athletes were competing from Italy, Finland, Hungary, Singapore, Norway, Spain, Ukraine, Slovakia, Switzerland, Brazil, Netherlands Antilles, Portugal, Denmark, Poland and San Marino.

For complete results go to:  http://www.ps2000.biz/classes/ranking/results/events_result_447.pdf

July 4, 2010 - Hamilton, Bermuda 15-year-old Owen Siese won the right to represent Bermuda at the Youth Olympic Games (YOG) in Sailing on Sunday, the final day of the four-day YOG Selection Trials.  The Trials were run by the Byte Class of Bermuda in the Great Sound and hosted by the Spanish Point Boat Club.  Owen was able to beat out 5 other hopefuls with a strong performance throughout the trial’s 16 races, which were sailed in varied conditions over 3 weekends.

For the first time ever at Byte Worlds, the male and female fleets raced separately and two individual World Champions were crowned. Darren Choy of Singapore became the first athlete to win back-to-back Byte World Titles, winning the 2010 Male World Championships. Niki Blassar of Finland is the new 2010 Female World Champion.

The event was extremely well attended with 28 different countries competing to qualify for the 2010 World Youth Olympics in Singapore. 6 male places and 6 female places were open for countries that had not yet qualified in their Continental Qualifier. These places were won as follows:
 
Male: Ukraine, Slovenia, Portugal, Turkey, France, Switzerland
Female: Denmark, Italy, Germany, Slovenia, Spain, Ukraine

For more World Championship details go to:  www.bytechamps.org

For incredible photos from Worlds go to:  http://www.capizzano.com/ByteWorlds2010/index.htm

For full results click here:  2010 CII World Championships RESULTS

Icarus Sailing Media has created outstanding video summaries of the 2010 CII European Junior Olympic Qualifier. Click here for the videos:  olympicsailing.blip.tv (Look along the right hand side of the page for different videos from Europeans or click here for the 'Lo-Res - European Qualifiers for Youth Olympics' video )

For more about future media coverage go to these Icarus Olympic Sailing Media links:

>http://www.icarussailingmedia.com/
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$1 Byte CII charters available for CORK International Regatta, August 16-19, 2010, POH, Kingston, Canada.

To be eligible for the charter you must be a 2010 member of the Byte Class International Association and live at least a 2-day drive away from Kingston, ON.

Charter is for the complete CII with sail.

A charter default fee of $250 US, on Visa, is required to reserve the charter. This fee will be reimbursed at pick-up only. Please note that this fee will be charged to anyone failing to pick-up their charter or to anyone canceling after the July 16, 2010 cancellation deadline.

There is a $500 deductible to cover damages incurred to your charter boat.

Please contact Peter, of PS2000 Inc., ASAP to reserve your charter:  514 363 5050 / peter@ps2000.ca

Limited number of charters are available.

76 competitors from 30 countries completed 10 races, sailed over four days, in a huge variety of wind and weather conditions. Peter Batho of Hungary won the Men's Division of the Byte CII European Championship and Sara Natasza Piasecka of Poland won the Women's Championship. The European Championship, also the Qualifier for the Youth Olympic Games, was sailed as part of the Imperia Winter Regatta with the Yacht Club Imperia hosting the 76 boat Byte fleet.

14 places were open to European qualifiers - 7 in the male division and 7 in the female. Of these 14 places, 13 were taken by different countries! Only the Finns qualified their country in both the men's
and women's disciplines.

For more on the Qualifier go to the Byte Championship Website at www.bytechamps.org