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, the following is the preliminary Schedule of Events for the CII Continental Qualifiers and other CII events leading up to the qualifiers.

Please note that some Events are not yet fully confirmed and are denoted TBC (To Be Confirmed). These should not be included in any schedule until confirmed and the TBC removed.

The following is the Schedule of Events for the CII Continental Qualifiers and other CII events leading up to the qualifiers

TBC = To Be Confirmed / Red events = YOG Qualifier

 Europe

Charter info:   nautivela@nautivela.com, Southern Europe; dave@ovingtonboats.co.uk, UK and Scandinavia
 2009
October 9 - 11
 CII Training Camp, Torbole (Lake Garda)
October 25 - 29 CII Training Camp, Cannes (site of the World Champ & Open YOG Qualifier 2010)
October 23 - November 1
 CII Training Camp, Nord Garda – Riva/Arco/Torbole TO BE CONFIRMED
November 6 - 8 CII Training Camp, Torbole (Lake Garda)
November 20-22 CII Training Camp, Imperia (site of the European Championship and YOG Qualifier, 2009)
 Dec 3-7
 Byte CII European Championship and YOG Qualifier for Europe, IMPERIA, Italy
 2010
 April 6-11
 Byte 2010 CII World Championship and YOG Qualifier (OPEN TO ALL MNAs), France
 May - July  TBC
 Byte CII 2010 European Championship, UK or Scandinavia
 
 South America Charter info: crisdehn@gmail.com
 2010
 Jan 25 - 31 Byte CII South American Championship & Central and South American YOG Qualifier, Guarapiranga, Sao Paulo
 April 6 - 11 Byte 2010 CII World Championship and YOG Qualifier (OPEN TO ALL MNAs), France
 
 North America Charter info: peter@ps2000.ca
 2009
 Nov 12 - 15
 CII Clinic Cayman Islands
 2010
 March  10 - 15
 Byte CII North American Championship and NA & Caribbean YOG Qualifier, Cayman Islands
 April 6 - 11 Byte 2010 CII World Championship and YOG Qualifier (OPEN TO ALL MNAs), France
 
 Asia Charter info: tim@xtremesailing.com
 2009
 November 23 - 29
 Byte CII Asian Championship and Asian YOG Qualifier, Pattaya, Thailand
 2010
 April 6 - 11 Byte 2010 CII World Championship and YOG Qualifier (OPEN TO ALL MNAs), France
 
 Oceania This qualifier is being run in Laser 4.7
 2010
  Jan 6 - 10
 Australian Youth Championships, Largs, Australia
  April 6 - 11 Byte 2010 CII World Championship and YOG Qualifier (OPEN TO ALL MNAs), France
 
 Africa Charter info: nautivela@nautivela.com
 2009
 NOT YET DECIDED The Byte Class has proposed including the African qualifiers with the European qualifiers but scored separately.
 2010
  April 6 - 11 Byte 2010 CII World Championship and YOG Qualifier (OPEN TO ALL MNAs), France