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Édgar Diminich
Édgar Diminich (born April 29, 1991) is a world class sailor from Ecuador. He began sailing Optimists and became Southamerican champion in 2004 when he was 12 years old. Two years later, in 2006, he won the bronze medal at the Optimist World Championship. Next, he was the Laser Radial Cressy Champion in Florida in 2008, the Laser National Champion in Ecuador in 2009, and he placed 4th in the Laser South Americans in Brazil in 2010. In 2012 he won the Snipe North American Championship as a crew of Raúl RÃos Raúl Andrés RÃos de Choudens (born 3 December 1993 in Guaynabo, Puerto Rico), is a world class sailor in the Optimist, Snipe, and Lightning classes. He began sailing Optimists at the age of ten at the Club Náutico de San Juan, and became ... and in 2016 he won the Snipe Western Hemisphere & Orient Championship as a skipper, with Jaime Flores. In 2016, he also was second at the Sunfish Worlds. Bolivarian Games * Gold medal at Sucre 2009 in Sunfish. * Gold ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sailing (sport)
The sport of sailing involves a variety of competitive sailing formats that are sanctioned through various sailing federations and yacht clubs. Racing disciplines include matches within a fleet of sailing craft, between a pair thereof or among teams. Additionally, there are specialized competitions that include setting speed records. Racing formats include both closed courses and point-to-point contests; they may be in sheltered waters, coast-wise or on the open ocean. Most competitions are held within defined classes or ratings that either entail one type of sailing craft to ensure a contest primarily of skill or rating the sailing craft to create classifications or handicaps. On water, a sailing competition among multiple vessels is a regatta, which usually consists of multiple individual races, where the boat crew that performs best in over the series of races is the overall winner. There is a broad variety of kinds of races and sailboats used for racing from large yacht to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laser (dinghy)
The Laser is a class of Single-handed sailing, single-handed, one-design dinghy sailing, sailing dinghies using a common hull design with three interchangeable rigs of different sail areas, appropriate to a given combination of wind strength and crew weight. Bruce Kirby (yachts), Bruce Kirby designed the Laser in 1970 with an emphasis on simplicity and performance. The Laser is a widely produced class of dinghies. As of 2018, there were more than 215,000 boats worldwide. It is an international class with sailors in 120 countries, and an Olympic class since 1996. Its wide acceptance is attributable to its robust construction, simple rig and ease of sailing that offer competitive racing due to tight class association controls which eliminate differences in hull, sails, and equipment. The International Laser Class Association (ILCA) defines the specifications and competition rules for the boat, which is officially referred to as the ILCA Dinghy, due to a trademark dispute. Other ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sailors At The 2015 Pan American Games
A sailor, seaman, mariner, or seafarer is a person who works aboard a watercraft as part of its crew, and may work in any one of a number of different fields that are related to the operation and maintenance of a ship. The profession of the sailor is old, and the term ''sailor'' has its etymological roots in a time when sailing ships were the main mode of transport at sea, but it now refers to the personnel of all watercraft regardless of the mode of transport, and encompasses people who operate ships professionally, be it for a military navy or civilian merchant navy, as a sport or recreationally. In a navy, there may be further distinctions: ''sailor'' may refer to any member of the navy even if they are based on land; while ''seaman'' may refer to a specific enlisted rank. Professional mariners Seafarers hold a variety of professions and ranks, each of which carries unique responsibilities which are integral to the successful operation of an ocean-going vessel. A ship's c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
