Sponsorship & Advertising : World Sailing

Sailing is one of the fastest growing sectors in the sports sponsorship marketplace. It's easy to understand why as the sport offers so many opportunities and markets with truly global audience. As the sports governing body, World Sailing has events both on and off the water as well as a host of projects and initiatives.

So whether you want to partner a Sailing World Championship, present a World Sailing Conference or sponsor a Youth Training programme, you should be able to find a World Sailing property that complements your marketing strategy.

Further detailed information will be available soon, in the meantime, have a look around the World Sailing website to learn more about us and our organisation. For more information about sponsoring World Sailing or World Sailing Events please click here to email the Marketing Team.

The World Sailing is proud to be sponsored by the following companies and thanks them for their commitment to the sport of sailing. Click on the links below for further details.

Partners & Suppliers

	Official Coatings Partner As a world-leading supplier of trusted coating solutions, Hempel is a global company with strong values, working with customers in the protective, marine, decorative, container and yacht industries. Today, Hempel employs 6,700 people in 80 countries. Across the globe, Hempel's coatings protect structures and equipment from corrosion. They extend asset lifetimes, reduce maintenance costs and bring colour to homes and places of work. Hempel was founded in Copenhagen, Denmark in 1915 and is proudly owned by the Hempel Foundation, which forms a solid economic base for the Hempel Group. It also supports cultural, humanitarian and scientific objectives around the world.
	Official Technology Partner SAP is the world leader in enterprise applications in terms of software and software-related service revenue. Based on market capitalization, we are the world's third largest independent software manufacturer.
	Official Timepiece Partner Rolex, the leading name in prestige watches that includes watches engineered specifically for sailing, have a long running commitment to supporting sailing through their sponsorship of major events such as the Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race, the Rolex Fastnet Race, the Maxi Yacht Rolex Cup and the Giraglia Rolex Cup, as well as the Rolex World Sailor of the Year Awards. Rolex are the Official Timepiece Partner of World Sailing and have been the title sponsor of the Rolex World Sailor of the Year Awards since 2001.
	Logistics and Shipping Partner GAC Pindar is your first port of call for integrated specialist services in the marine sport and leisure sector, including: yacht transportation, multimodal freight services, yacht spares logistics, sailing event management, ship agency and corporate hospitality. It is the winning combination of the global strength and resources of the GAC Group with the insider understanding of the yachting world represented by the Team Pindar professional sailing team.

Event Partners

	Nautivela Nautivela offers charter service and to major national and international events. Who buys and uses a boat nautivela in their own country, has the advantage of being able to rent a boat identical to that normally used for the races to which we will be present for assistance.
	Ovington Ovington Boats is one of the worlds most successful small boat building businesses specialising in the high performance dinghy market. With an enviable reputation for quality and service across a wide range of products including the manufacture of the Olympic Class 49er, the 29er Class, Musto Performance Skiff, VX One, Flying Fifteen and International 14.
	Laser Performance LaserPerformance's goal is to make that a reality: as the world's largest dinghy sailboat company they take pride in supplying high quality, safe and innovative boats to all five continents. Whether you are a family that wants to learn the basics of sailing in a day, or an athlete competing against Olympic-class sailors, LaserPerformance has a boat that will make life on the water a true pleasure.
	Maclaren Maclaren has initiated several projects to align the Maclaren brand with global dinghy sailing including the sponsorship of Team Maclaren and the U.S. Women's Olympic Match Racing team led by Anna Tunnicliffe.
	Nacra NACRA & Performance Sails are based in The Netherlands. Our Dutch company took over the original NACRA factory (Santa Ana, California) in 2007 with all it's rights concerning the brand NACRA. Nacra has been originally founded in 1975 and draws it's knowledge therefore from a long history of building and supplying catamarans to the world of sailing.

Without a doubt, the World Sailing website is the home of world sailing. From grass-roots through to the sailing elite, World Sailing is the first place that sailors look to for advice, information and the most up to date sailing news from around the World.