Muscat, 1st July 2019: A determined Team Oman Air are already looking forward to their next event on the calendar after a frustrating final day at the GC32 World Championships in Portugal saw them slip down the leaderboard. Having led the 10-strong fleet of high-speed foiling catamarans after the first of four days of racing,
Young Omani sailors are celebrating having achieved great results at an international racing regatta held in Bahrain. Members of an Oman Sail team took the top two places in the Laser 4.7 class at the Al Bareh International Regatta. Abdul Malik Al Hinai produced an incredible performance to take 10 wins from the
Muscat, June 24th, 2019: Team Oman Air heads into the GC32 World Championship aiming to build on their winning start to the 2019 season with a further victory this week in Portugal. The championship marks the second event of the GC32 Racing Tour, with the Oman Air crew having emerged as worthy winners at the
Oman Sail youth teams are preparing to test their developing skills at international regattas in Bahrain and France this month. A 14-strong team of young Optimist and Laser 4.7 sailors will go into action at the Al Bareh International Regatta, which kicks off 18th June. For the 10 Optimist sailors taking part, all aged under
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 24th 2019: An Oman Special Olympics sailing team is celebrating gold medal success at the Middle East’s first ever World Games event in Abu Dhabi. Mohamed Ahmed Al Wahaibi won his class in the Laser Radial event at the high-profile international games which attracted 7,500 athletes from no fewer than 190 countries.
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, February 21st 2019: Oman Sail’s corporate personal development programme, Zimam, is organising a three-day physical outdoor activities and practical experiential learning exercises for students from the newly-launched “Omani Academy for Special Skills” in an effort to develop employability abilities and provide on-the-job training for people with learning disabilities. The academy will be run by
Muscat, February 24th 2019: An Oman Sail team is making final preparations before heading to the first Special Olympics World Games ever held in the Middle East. The six-strong Omani team will be among more than 7,500 athletes from no fewer than 176 countries who will gather in Abu Dhabi for the start of the
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
