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Team Oman Air got their first ever GC32 Racing Tour season off to the best possible start with victory at the opening event of 2019, the GC32 Villasimius Cup in Sardinia. Racing in sometimes tricky and difficult conditions the Oman Air crew showed their mettle in a highly competitive 10-strong fleet of high-speed foiling catamarans
Team Oman Air is all set to go into high-speed action this week with the opening event of the international 2019 GC32 Racing Tour. In what promises to be an exciting and challenging season the crew of the high-tech foiling catamaran – capable of reaching 40 knots – will start their Tour campaign at the
Muscat, April 30th: Oman has won its first ever windsurfing silver medal at a week-long world championship event in Portugal. Abdul Majeed Al Hadhrami earned second place in the 2019 Techno293 Plus World Championship men’s open category after a string of consistent results at the regatta on the coast of western Algarve. He finished seventh
Muscat, 24th April 2019: A major step in a pioneering joint project between Duqm Refinery and Oman Sail saw the participation of 50 students in a training course to boost their employment prospects. The three-day course, held at Millennium Resort Al Mussanah, targeted Grade 11 and 12 school students, aged 17 and 18, from
Muscat, March 11th 2019: Two young Omani sailors have made history by both winning medals at the high-profile Asian Laser Championship in Singapore. Laser 4.7 racers Abdulmalik Al Hinai and Al Moatasem Al Farsi each delivered multi-race winning performances at the international regatta on their way to taking silver and bronze medals respectively in what
Muscat, December 10th 2018: The final youth sailing event of 2018 brought together 56 racers from Oman Sail’s four sailing schools, all determined to qualify for next year’s high-profile Mussanah Race Week and impress Oman national team selectors. Two days of intense but friendly competition at the last Ranking Race of the year in
Muscat, December 8th 2018: The renowned French yachtsman Franck Cammas has joined the Oman Sail team to manage their ongoing Diam and new Figaro campaigns next year. Cammas will also join the race squads during the 2019 season as Oman Sail looks to build on its successful global sailing programme. Regarded as one of the
Mohammed Al Qassmi Muscat, December 3rd 2018: Young Omani sailors have shown their emerging skills and abilities racing against world-class competition at two international championship regattas, producing their best ever results at each event. In an intensive period of back-to-back events a four-strong Oman Sail youth team raced at the 2018 Optimist Asian
Muscat, November 18th 2018: Young Omani sailors have again demonstrated their emerging racing skills with wins in three of the four classes they competed in at a regional event in Abu Dhabi. A total of 17 sailors from the Oman Sail Youth Team took part in the National Day Sailing Regatta and came away with
The victory was sealed when the race team of skipper Stevie Morrison, Abdulrahman Al Mashari and Quentin Ponroy completed the Grand Prix Pacifique des Jeux, the last of three events counting towards the 2018 World Tour title. The Oman Sail team ended their winning season ahead of Bernard Stamm’s Cheminees Poujoulat in second and the
Omani sailors are celebrating a clean sweep of class of victories at the competitive UAE Regatta Championship held in Abu Dhabi. Young racers from both the youth and national teams produced a series of impressive results to top the leaderboard in each of the four classes they competed in. Oman Sail’s Optimist youth team sailors
Duqm Refinery and Oman Sail have signed a pioneering agreement to improve the employability prospects of 100 students and young Omani graduates, by connecting them with Oman’s maritime heritage. A signing ceremony was held at Oman Sail’s headquarters, in presence of H.E. Maitha bint Saif Al Mahrouqi, Undersecretary of the Ministry of Tourism and Chairwoman
There were huge smiles all round as Team Oman Air took their first event win of the 2018 Extreme Sailing Series with a dramatic single point victory in San Diego. The crew of the GC32 foiling catamaran had to scrap for every point in largely light wind conditions, and the overall result was in the
Team Oman Air took a step towards their Extreme Sailing Series season goal with a strong performance on the opening day of their latest encounter on America’s west coast. In variable and sometimes unpredictable wind conditions in San Diego, California, on Thursday, the crew of the high-speed GC32 foiling catamaran finished the first of four
Team Oman Air are heading to America’s west coast determined to steer their Extreme Sailing Series fortunes towards the top of the podium at the season’s penultimate event. The experienced crew of the high-speed GC32 foiling catamaran will be aiming to carry forward their exceptional final day form at the last event in Cardiff, UK
Omani sailors have come away from the 2018 Asian Games with their heads held high after highly competitive performances. The Oman Sail team at the Indonesian event were represented in the men’s two-handed 49er and mixed Open Laser 4.7 classes, with the 49er duo of Musab Al Hadi and Waleed Al Kindi posting Oman’s best
Young sailors from all four Oman Sail schools will gather in Sur this week for the fifth edition of the Oman Sailing Championship, the highlight of the national youth racing season. A total of 130 sailors – many of them new to the sport – will race each other over the course of the eight
A four-strong Oman Sail youth team have made impressive progress while racing against a highly competitive international fleet at the Laser 4.7 Youth World Championships. Each of the sailors – all aged 16 or 17 and selected from the Omantel Youth Sailing Programme – posted a number of strong results during the intense six-day regatta
Oman Sail’s Diam 24 team go into the high-intensity final phase of the Tour Voile with their goal of a podium finish in the French classic within reach. After racing around the Channel and Atlantic coasts of France, the 26-strong fleet have arrived in the Mediterranean for six days of back-to-back racing which will decide
Oman Sail’s Tour Voile team has completed the first phase of the highly competitive race around France in a strong third place overall in the 26-strong fleet. After the opening three days of stadium racing in Dunkirk the #SailingArabia powered by Oman Sail squad of skipper Thierry Douillard with experienced Omani sailors Ali Al Balushi