O’pen Skiff competitions combine the excitement and freestyle fun from the board sport world with pure sail racing.
This cocktail based on having fun AND serious competition is a huge hit with young skippers, making them life-long converts to sailing!
Every year, more than 300 riders gather on different spots around the globe to battle it out for the title of World Champion or European Champion.
These exciting competitions are a chance to reveal the best talents in the U12, U15 and U17 categories!
KIDS LOVE THE O’PEN SKIFF
A cocktail of ingenious freestyle sessions as well as more standard-type
regattas, all in a very festive atmosphere.
The O'pen Skiff has become the go-to junior sailboat in several countries where sailing interest has been stunted by 60 year old boat designs and over emphasis on elite competition.
But the greatest attribute of the O'pen Skiff is that kids LOVE them.
O’PEN SKIFF CELEBRATED ITS 17TH BIRTHDAY!
Designed specifically for juniors, 100% open, rapid and responsive, the O'pen Skiff offers kids a machine that delivers maximum fun while helping them learn the skills and reflexes to enjoy racing on current, high-performance equipment.
Hundreds of sailing clubs around the world have opted for the O'pen Skiff, for a new, fun way of teaching sailing.
THE GO-TO JUNIOR SAILBOAT IN SEVERAL COUNTRIES
The O'pen Skiff has also ruffled the feathers of the traditional race scene, with race formats and simplified rules that focus more on fun, sportsmanship, and improvement, than just race results.
As a result, the O'pen Skiff Class has seen rapid growth in many European countries, USA, Australia, New Zealand, as well as others.
The O'pen Skiff was designed with fun sailing as the priority.
