Elliott 6m – 2012 Women’s Olympic Match
Racing Boat
In 2008, ISAF was searching for the
perfect yacht for the Women’s Match
Racing event at the 2012 Olympic Sailing
Competition. Greg Elliott, seeing that
the Elliott 6 met virtually all of the
ISAF requirements, tweaked the design
further to perfect the boat for ISAF and
named it the Elliott 6m. At the Olympic
meetings held in Spain in November 2008
and against some very impressive
competition the Elliott 6m was selected
in a 27 to 8 vote as the Women’s Match
Racing Yacht for the 2012 Olympics.
To ensure fair distribution to member nations ISAF published an order and distribution protocol and invited its Member National Authorities (MNA’s) to apply for a building slot. They have now received and approved applications for over 70 boats from 16 MNA’s representing Asia, Europe, Oceania, North America and South America. The first Elliott 6m will be distributed to MNA’s to support upcoming ISAF Sailing World Cup events beginning with the Elliott 6m debut in Kiel, Germany in June 2009 and followed by the Skandia Sail for Gold Regatta in Great Britain during September 2009.
McConaghy Boats is proud to collaborate with Elliott Marine on this very important and high profile project. It’s an exciting opportunity to showcase McConaghy product in this new area of match race sailing and of course at the 2012 Olympic Games.
NEWS
Sail Rules Now
Available
Modern Olympic
Movement - Article
Elliott 6 selected
for 2012 Olympics
ISAF Allocate
Building Slots for Elliott 6m
Exciting New
Growth Period for Women's Match Racing
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