Sailing is an event at the Island Games, the biennial multi-sports event for island nations, territories and dependencies.

Sailing Sailing employs the wind—acting on sails, wingsails or kites—to propel a craft on the surface of the ''water'' (sailing ship, sailboat, raft, windsurfer, or kitesurfer), on ''ice'' (iceboat) or on ''land'' (land yacht) over a chosen cour ...

at the

Island Games The Island Games (currently known as the NatWest International Island Games for sponsorship reasons) are biennial international multi-sports events organised by the International Island Games Association (IIGA). Competitor teams each represent d ...

was first introduced as a sport in

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Sailboarding Windsurfing is a wind propelled water sport that is a combination of sailing and surfing. It is also referred to as "sailboarding" and "boardsailing", and emerged in the late 1960s from the aerospace and surf culture of California. Windsurfing ga ...

(or as it is sometimes called Windsurfing, which was only invented in 1948), started earlier, in 1993. All the participants in the Games are surrounded by water (except Gibraltar), so water sports are attractive. * Sailing : - ILCA 7 Laser Standard Rig - A maximum of 2 entries per Member Island. : -

ILCA 6 The Laser Radial or ILCA 6 is a popular one-design class of small sailing dinghy, originally built by Laser Performance. It is a singlehanded boat, meaning that it is sailed by one person. The Laser Radial is a variant of the Laser standard, w ...

Laser Radial The Laser Radial or ILCA 6 is a popular one-design class of small sailing dinghy, originally built by Laser Performance. It is a singlehanded boat, meaning that it is sailed by one person. The Laser Radial is a variant of the Laser standard, w ...

Rig - A maximum of 2 entries per Member Island. : - The team positions shall be calculated by adding the points of each team’s best three places for each race sailed (this is not necessarily the same 3 sailors in each race). : - Age - minimum 13 * Sailboarding : - A maximum of 4 entries per Member Island. : - The team positions shall be calculated by adding the points of each team’s best three places for each race sailed (this is not necessarily the same 3 sailors in each race). : - Age - minimum 13

Events

Top Medalists

Sailing

Sailing Laser Standard Rig

Sailing Laser Radial Rig

Sailing Team

Sailboarding

Sailboarding Individual

Sailboarding Long Distance Individual

Sailboarding Team Event

References