The event; the 12th national disabled sailing championships.

He has officiated numerous World, US National, Caribbean, European and other sailing championships including Olympic games.

Salil Chaturvedi is a director of India based apparel brand Provogue and a former sailing champion, having represented India in international sailing championships.

In 1924, he won the Sears Cup, the junior national sailing championship.

Since 1972, Kingston has hosted more than 40 World and Olympic sailing championships.

With his Harvard roommate John F. Kennedy, James Rousmaniere was part of the team that won the national intercollegiate sailing championship in 1938.

Nine sailors have already been named to the team after they had competed in the United States youth sailing championship June 23-30 in Hyannis, Mass.

She competed eight times for the Mrs. Charles Francis Adams Cup, a national sailing championship for women.

But the area, which is staging a national sailing championship this week, is not your average port of call for yachting's elite.

In early 2010, it was finally agreed that a new sailing championship should be established that should be included in the annual Australian University Games.