IMPERIA WINTER REGATTA DATES CONFIRMED

Imperia, 26th October 2010 - Imperia Winter Regatta, the event organized by Yacht Club Imperia, is becoming the most important winter Mediterranean sailing race: the 21st edition will be held as usual in Oneglia Harbour starting on 4th and finishing on 8th December 2010.
An even bigger number of teams are expected to take part in the event coming from all over Europe countries: this year once again at least 350 crews will be at sea: the racing classes will be 420 (open and ladies), Olympic classes 470 (man and women) and Laser /Standard (man), Radial and Radial boys. At the moment at least 50 teams have already entered the event and the teams ara coming from Belgium, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Switzerlan, Ukraine, Austria.
"We're working hard to organize another successful edition of IWR - event manager Luigi Rognoni said - trying to involve the everyone in the town of Imperia in order to offer the people attending the event the best hospitality. We are waiting for a large fleet, more thn 300 teams coming from all over Europe".
As usual L'Equipe teams will race in Imperia taking part in the International Meeting.
As in the past editions the fleet will race on different sail areas in front of Imperia Harbour and races will be managed by an international jury: ten races are scheduled for 470 and Laser classes, nine for 420 and L'Equipe classes.

IWR 2010 SCHEDULE

4th December 2010, all classes registration
4th-6th December 2010, International Meeting, L'Equipe class
5th-7th December 2010, 420 (open and ladies), Laser Radial boys (sailors born after 1991) classes races
5th-8th December 2010, 470 (man and women), Laser (man), Laser Radial (woman) classes races

The IWR is an ISAF Grade 3 event.
Press Office IWR: Laura Jelmini, ph. +39 3488720683, iPhone +39 3334186290, e-mail: laurajelmini at mac.com
All info (live race, results and photo during the event) are posted on:
http://i-w-r.com
At the end of the event the IWR calendar could be downloaded on line and a photo book by photographer Fabio Taccola will be published by Sea Book (www.sea-book.com).
Imperia Winter Regatta is organized by Yacht Club Imperia (www.ycim.it). Organization of IWR is possible thanks to support of Comune of Imperia/Assessorato al Turismo, Regione Liguria/Assessorato allo Sport, Provincia of Imperia, Fondazione CARIGE, and the cooperation of Imperia Coast Guard and Assonautica Provinciale of Imperia.
IWR has the support as well of Porto di Imperia Spa, ICS (Internet & Communication Solutions), Outreach Communication, North Sails, UNO Communications, Pasta Agnesi, In.Net, RM Office, Supermercati Symply-SMA, Grafiche Amadeo.
FONDAZIONE CARIGE gives a remarkable contribution to IWR 2010 organisation, a very important winter event for our Region. Fondazione CARIGE is a non-profit entity, dedicated to promotion and support of any cultural, historic or traditional activity in the region of Liguria. With all these intervention Fondazione CARIGE hope to be the engine for the cultural revival of the entire local community.