Nautical Industry

The larger version of the popular and successful Esse 850, the Esse 990, which had been shown to the public at the Friedrichshafen Boat Show, is for sale at a 20-percent discount off list price, which includes aluminum trailer, carbon mast and boom and 3DL North sails. The boat is lightly used as it was sailed in a few long-distance races on the Jura lakes in Switzerland. See the detailed equipment list and specs. More information at info@boatcom.ch.

Tomorrow will be the opening of the first InWater-BoatShow, taking place from August 20 to 22 in- and ouside of the Bottighofen harbour on Lake Constance. A number of well-known boatyards present their product lines, sailing and motor yachts, technical equipment and accessories. Official opening tomorrow at 10.30.

The 'PASSAGE', a 57-foot-aluminium sloop, built for the Whitbread Ocean Race (today's Volvo Ocean Race) has vacancies for enthusiastic sailors who want to round the Cape Horn and sail in the Antartics. Next possibility to join an learn more about the 'PASSAGE' is a training trip to the Faeroes from August 7 to 28, 2010 (1, 2 or 3 weeks). More information at www.sailfast.ch

Continuously extending our services and improving www.sailing-news.ch, another new section has been added to this website: As from now, an access to the second-hand boats market has been added. In cooperation with Boot24, the largest online market for second-hand boats in Switzerland, a large number of boats of all kind can be searched in one of the three sub-sections Yachts, Dinghies and Multihulls.

For the most up-to-date Internet sailing portal www.sailing-news.ch, the first half of 2010 has been another success story with a massive visitor increase. 53'000 unique identified visitors, 84% more compared to the previous year, have opened these pages 215'000 times (+ 50%). 2/3 of the visitors come from Switzerland (+39%) and 43'000 (+60%) from Germany. Last in the rankings is Kasachstan with one visitor (+100%). The Google statistics (PDF).
Without any promotion activities, these achievements have only been possible thanks to your reccommendations to other sailing friends. Thank you very much for your very valuable support.

The SuisseNautic in Berne is the only nautical exposition in Switzerland and is a must for everybody interested in any kind of nautical sports. Over 200 exhibitors from Switzerland and abroad will be present in the halls of the BEA Berne Expo from February 12 - 20, 2011. A first communiqué informs on next year's highlights.

19 years ago, Jean-Luc Lévêque from Brittany/FRA and Nicolas Berthoud from Berne/SUI founded the Europ'Sails production facilities. Today, they are selling successful sails for a number of racing classes. To keep contact with customers and prospects, they have launched a Newsletter, informing about regatta successes and Europ'Sails products.

Online shopping is trendy! Yachting Systems AG runs an online shop on its website www.yachting-systems.ch currently updated with new offers and sales actions. The catalogue contains everything needed for nautical activities, from small accessories to clothing, from polish liquids to sea maps. For missing items or questions, Yachting Systems maintains a customer-friendly e-mail contact service to respond to individual requests. The Yachting Systems Webshop.

X-Yachts opens now an Online-Parts-Catalogue with the complete inventory for all different X-type boats.
This year, the highlight of the regatta season will be the Kiel Week with the world championship of the X-35 and the European championship of the new X-41. The organisers are already now very happy about the incoming entries. A report.

To the start of the season this spring, TackTick presents a new generation of performance packs, i.e. wind systems, depth and distance systems (PDF) and micro compasses, as well as the compasses and watches from the parent company Suunto such as the new C-66 compass (PDF). All Suunto/TackTick-products are for sale online by Duvoisin Nautique.
TackTick uses also new approaches to present its product in video clips such as the wireless wind system, the Racemaster-Taktik-compass or the Micro-compass.

The sailing seaon 2010 is about to start. Why not drop in at the Yachting Systems online-shop offering everything needed for a leasure and racing: equipment, clothing, fittings, electronics, books, maps, and much more.
Swiss-Sailing-members can benefit of a 10% discount during the whole year. The access to the Shop functions over a simple login.

Under the direction of Christian 'Blumi' Scherrer SUI, ex Alinghi, ex +39 and bigboat Pro, matchracer Eric Monnin SUI and Stefan Eder GER, five Blu26-teams from Switzerland and Germany met for a 4-days training on Lake Garda. The venue was at its best with a full palette of all wind conditions. The enthusiastic participants will without doubt be back next year.

One of the many brand items sold by Duvoisin-Nautique at Lake Neuchâtel is the Musto-Skiff, celebrating its 10th year of existence. In Switzerland, this spectacular One-Person-Dinghy has found its place and a interesting regatta-calendar 2010 has already been published. The Communique from Musto (PDF).

The Blu26 will be exposed at the 'Boot' in Düsseldorf, the most important pre-season nautical exposition in Europe, from january 23 to 31, 2010. Christian Scherrer and Christian Bollnger of the Bluboats Team, as well as the German dealers Stephan Eder and Florian Hornsteiner of the Sailingcenter Tegernsee will be happy to present the attractive Day-Sailor that is also used in World Match Racing Tour events. Their stand 17C04 is in the hall 17.

During the last week of January, the traditional 'Boot' takes place again in Düsseldorf GER with the X-Yachts boatyard, presenting their new models X-34, Xc-42 and Xc-45. X-Yachts kindly invites to visit their stand. An advance notification is recommended for an expert advice on any subject.

Never before a platform for the sport of sailing did exist in Switzerland with such a market penetration: 69'113 unique identifiable visitors connected to www.sailing-news.ch 333'311 times, addressing 452'922 pages. These numbers are more than the double of sailing addicts compared to all the nautical print media in this country. Two third of the visitors come from Switzerland (+ 29,29 %). A major increase can also be noted from France (+38%) and Austria (+ 54,4 %). The English version initiated as from April 2009 had also a positive effect. Since mid-2009, Google-Analytics show increase rates in additional European countries around 100%, in the scandinavian countries even over 200%. This trend will prevail in 2010 and we expect to reach over 100'000 'unique visits'.
www.sailing-news.ch is the only sailing Internet portal world-wide having the Olympic and youth sailing as first priority, the part of our sport practiced with the most dedication, commitment and effort delivering results of the highest sporting value.
No other medium, at least in Europe, reports as often and competent about the happenings around the America's Cup, especially in the weeks ahead, and other events with professional sailors are covered as well.
We are very grateful if you further recommend our website. Thank you very much !
The statistics 2009 (PDF).

Yesterday, the Danish X-Yacht boatyard presented the latest member of the sporty cruising yacht family, the Xc-38. The 38-foot boat complements the serie which started with the Xc-45, added the Xc-42 and has the Xc-50, expected in April 2010 already in production. The Xc-38 will be available in August 2010. With over 6'000 boats built within the last 30 years, the X-Yachts are among the most successful yachts ever. The Xc-38 details.

Thanks to our advertisers, www.sailing-news.ch has become a prime entry point for all items of interest for any type of sailor. The Online-Shops of H2O-Sensations, Duvoisin Nautique and Yachting-Systems are at your fingertips to order all kind of equipment for the coming season, as well as clothing, books and small or larger gadgets as presents for your family and friends.
During the past years, we did also inform on books and calendars in the special section books and publications of our website.

Today, the Paris Boat Show opens the doors, and over 1200 exhibitors present their new products. In addition, a number of regatta organising authorities and teams use the plaform of this important exhibition to present their programs and activities. The official website.

Up to now, the history of sailing in Switzerland has hardly been researched. With his book 'Vorindustrielle Last-Segelschiffe in der Schweiz', the archaeologist Thomas Reitmaier has established a first comprehensive overview. Based on historical documents and pictures, but first and foremost the increasing number of archaeological discoveries during the past years, an entertaining and well illustrated 240-page-book has been edited, presenting the history of sailing in Switzerland, its economical importance and the history of boat building. The oldest wreck - a Roman war rowing boat from approx. 300 AC - can be seen at Yverdon/Lake Neuchâtel. See also the English summary. This book is a MUST for every Swiss sailor. It can be ordered online (go to the bottom of the page).

For the new Nacra F20 Carbon orders are open now. Full description of the boat is from now on available on H2O-eShop. Special offer for the Launch, for the first 5 boats ordered or at the latest until June 2010 only : The first ordered 5 boats for Switzerland will benefit for the Race Pack included, which means a Full option boat for only CHF 36’500.- (homologated in Switzerland). Same conditions will be applicable for France Rhône-Alpes for a price of EUR 23’700.-.
The H²O Sensations Nacra F20 Carbon boat is already ordered and should arrive by the end of February 2010 in Switzerland. Be the first to get your Nacra F20 Carbon boat.

The trend away from the print media to the Internet has grown is 2009, especially for yachting, one Internet pioneers. www.sailing-news.ch could extend its leading position in the market during this year. Already by the end of September, the number of visitors of the previous year has been reached. End of 2009, 60'000 individually identified visitors will have entered our pages over 300'000 times. With 1 min 45 sec, the average visitors time has also increased by 25 %. All figures are recorded by means of Google-Analytics, a very concise Standard-System.
Contrary to the print volumes given by sailing magazines, our figures represent real contacts with the advertising banners on our page. Part of the very specialised target group of our visitors contacts our pages daily (day average 1200 visitors). To mention, that our advertising fees are very moderate. It's time now to book the advertising for 2010 at info@sailing-news.ch.

Numerous new and attractive items have been added to the H2O-Sensation webshop. If you can make up your mind quickly, trailer and sail boxes in various sizes from 2.75 m to 3.30 m are available at extraordinary conditions until the end of June. All details on request at the webshop.

A number of successes at Olympic Games, World and Continental Championships allow Landenberger-OneDesign-Sails to profit of a vast knowhow to design and procuce the appropriate sail for every ambitioned sailor. Centerboard dinghy, catamaran or keelboat, there are ideally fitting sails for every type of boat. For the success-oriented regatta sailor, the sails will be specially designed to meet the requirements of the boat and its crew. With CAD and computer assisted cutting of the sails, quality and precision which are a prerequisit for successful fast sails are guaranteed.

A massive increase in visitors again during the past month of May with 34% more than a year ago. More than 7'000 "individually identifed visitors' did contact our pages over 28'000 times. The increase is mainly due to more Swiss readers, as the English version, launched three months ago, has not yet reached the large target group aimed at.
Thank you for your interest which motivates us to stay on top with digested news of interest for sail racing enthusiasts. On this occasion, the interesting conditions for advertisers are to be mentioned. The Internet aiming directly at a specific target group is generally considered to be the most effective advertising tool in these economically difficult times.

Also this year, the CER offers a regatta training open for everybody during the evenings of July 13 to 17 2009, 17h to 21h. The training sessions will be held on Surprise Yachts. Some basic sailing knowhow is recommended to take full advantage of the course. All details on the website of the Centre d’Entraînement à la Régate of Geneva.

In the first term of 2009, the number of visitors has again increased. And this before the sailing season did really begin and practically without the English version just started end of March. 90'000 unique visitors, an increase of 11% - did contact our website, increasing their time spent by 34%.
This means also a higher customer contact potential for our advertising partners with banners on our pages.

The board of creditors for insolvent German shipyard Dehler accepted a bid from German sailboat builder Hanse Yachts AG to acquire its brand. A short report.

Yachting Systems AG acts as the MUSTO Shop Switzerland presenting a large part of the English company's product line, leisure and technical items, ready to try. Items not on stock can be ordered within a short delivery time. In addition, different other brands are on stock such as Gill, TBS, Helly Hansen and Holebrook (pullovers). A competent sales teams is at the disposal of customers. The range of goods.

Yachting Systems AG is a well established special nautical shop in the Zurich area since 35 years. Its clear goal is to offer a solution for any problem off stock. The range of goods is vast, from paints, boats care products, ropes, fittings, electronics, sea maps, books, gifts, clothing, shoes and - not to forget - services of all kind. A competent sales team is at the disposal of customers. Have a look !

The Internet has not only considerably improved the information flow regarding results and activities of the sailing sport. but also changed the consumer behaviour, as everything can now be ordered at home in a simple way. With the new sub-section Online-Shops, www.sailing-news.ch will give an overview on the continually growing number of online-shops.
By doing this, the many yachting shop in Switzerland shall not be left aside and our new sub-section Shops presents and updates the respective list.

On Good Friday, the Segelschule Thunersee at Hilterfingen, the oldest sailing school in Switzerland, founded in 1935, starts its program 2009. Today, it is the largest sailing school in Switzerland, well known not only in this country, with over 50 instructors applying the latest methods in training, a modern fleet perfectly maintained with courses meeting everyone’s requirements, and not to forget, with very reliable wind conditions. All types of courses and a fleet of rental boats are offered. For business or family cruises, larger boats with skipper can be booked such as the Archambault 40 - see photo - oder the classic 8 m IJ built in 1918. A video about the Segelschule Thunersee with some sequences dated 1935 !

More than 100'000 individuals - in boat-yards, with sailmakers, in accessory and clothing shops, sailing schools, boat rentals, clubs and associations, journalists and photographers - are actually working in the nautical sector in Switzerland enabling us to spend many happy days on the water and, not to forget, to enhance the attractivity of our country for tourists. Starting today, we open a new section on our website dedicated to the 'Nautical Industry' with interesting news among others from our advertisers. Our ambitious goal is to present a complete overview of all suppliers involved in sailing: Shipyards, sailmakers, online shops, sailing schools, boat rentals, nautical publications, accessories shops, etc. In the coming days, we shall add sub-sections one after the other. A visit will be paying, not only with our pages but above all with our advertisers.