The Foiling Week(tm) is the first and only global series of events dedicated to the amazingly fast foiling boats, their sailors, designers and builders. JOIN THE 2016 EVENTS

1. JOIN THE 2016 EVENTS
Foiling, the third mode of sailing
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The is the first and only global series of
events dedicated to the amazingly fast foiling boats, their
sailors, designers and builders
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FOILING WEEK

2. Foiling is taking the sailing world by storm: a combination of
hydrodynamic science, composites experience and extreme athletic skills
are making flight over water a powerful and influential reality
FOILING IS THE FUTURE OF SAILING
UP TO 1980
DISPLACEMENT BOATS
the boat is slower
than wind
FROM 1990
PLANING BOATS
achieving the same speed
of the wind
2013
FOILING BOATS
exceed 3 times
the wind speed
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3. Thanks to wing-like foils mounted under the hull these
boats do literally fly on the water and can achieve
unbeliavable speeds exceeding 3 times the wind speed
"It’s clear this next America’s Cup is going to be all about
foiling and that’s why it’s such a focus for us. We simply have
to be as skilled as we can be in foiling boats and so we’re
taking the time now to learn anything we can about it"
Kyle Langford,ORACLE TEAM USA
Foiling boats do represent the state of the art of high
performance technology and efficiency
«... Hydrofoils gives a further corresponding increase in
speed and efficiency of operation ...»
Wikipedia about the Hydrofoil
AMERICA’S CUP BOATS ARE NOW FOILING
THE MOST ADVANCED SAILING BOAT
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4. TFW MAKES THE DIFFERENCE
TRIAL
All type of production
models available for trial
REGATTA
Olimpic &
world class sailors
FORUM
Top designers, builders
and sailors as speakers
It is the only sailing event worldwide dedicated exclusively to foiling boats and their technologies.
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Foiling Week is recognized as the place to be for top world racers and the most influential designers.
the event offers the opportunity to see the capabilities of the world best sailor and designers while
experiencing first hand all the foiling boats
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FOILING WEEK 2016 - FORMAT
Class Regattas
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Boat Show
Sea Trials
Long Distance
Speed Contest
Forum

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FOILING WEEK 2016 - SIDE ACTIVITIES
Guest boats including luxury runabouts
Car tours on the mountain Guests on foiling boats
VIP hospitality
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FOILING WEEK - GARDA
Fraglia Vela Malcesine is the hosting club of
the succesful original Foiling Week editions in
2014and2015.
FVM offers state of the art facilities that are
ideal to take advantage of the famous Garda
winds while being perfectly blended with the
surroundingnationalpark
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7-10 JULY 2016
3 days of technical forum
4 days of foiling boat show and on-water events*
*races, speed contest, sea trials, guest experience, ...

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FOILING WEEK - NEWPORT R. I.
Sail Newport, Inc., founded in 1983, is a non-
profit 501c3 organization. Sail Newport is
home to New England's largest public sailing
center and is considered Rhode Island's
premierpublicsailingsite.
Sail Newport’s mission is to promote and
operate affordable public sailing instruction,
rental programs and to create opportunities
toattractnewsailorstothesport.
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8-11 SEPTEMBER 2016
3 days of technical forum
4 days of foiling boat show and on-water events*
*races, speed contest, sea trials, guest experience, ...

9. FACTS AND FIGURES ABOUT THE PAST EDITIONS
Announced on December 2013, held on July 8-10 2014 and July 1-
5-2015 at Fraglia Vela Malcesine, Garda Lake, Italy
more that 60 boats including foiling monohulls, multihulls, kite-
surf boards, windsurfers and prototypes
100 Sailors from 11 countries including professionals such as
Sebastian Col – Ac Helsman, François Gabart - Vendée Globe
winner, Shannon Falcone - two times AC winner, Nils Frei - Team
alinghi, Josh McKnight - Moth World Champion, Stefano Rizzi –
Olympics, AC, VOR, ...
Fully booked forums - 20 speakers from 7 countries:
DESIGNERS (ex. Tom Speer - Team Oracle, Bobby
KleinSchmit - ETNZ, Kevin Hall - Team Artemis, Quentin
Lucet and Xavier Guibaut - VPLP
BUILDERS (ex. Mark Somerville - Persico, Chris Edwards –
Frazer/Nash Consultancy, ...)
INTERNATIONAL AUDIENCE (80 people every day in the
forum hall and more than 3500 people via video
streaming attended to the forums)
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FACTS AND FIGURES ABOUT THE PAST EDITIONS
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After 2 successful editions (2014 and 2015) Foiling Week has
collected many international recognitions. our last 12 months
press review reports this clearly:
Post events Press review. More than 95 mastheads from 50
countries and 250 plus articles talking about TFW in 6
different languages
TV 2015. “Nautical Channel Sports”, “RAI” and other
international TV channels. They will reach at least 5.5M of
unique viewers
Website 2015. 1,5mln visits - 5.5mln pages visited
FaceBook 2015. >4,700 likes / >800,000 reach / 480 posts /
reactions (like to posts): 13,400
Twitter. account dedicated to media people. >500 followers
(90% are journalists, blogger or specialized magazines) , >680
tweets
Youtube channel. 80,000 uniques views for a total of more
then 200,000 viewed minutes
*statistics up to September 30th, 2015

11. SOME COMMENTS ON THE PAST EDITIONS
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Sailing Anarchy
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Yachting World
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Yachts and Yachting
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Repubblica
The Foiling Week on Lake Garda could easily become the mecca of modern sailing and design. The enthusiasm
from organizers and participants matches the grandeur of the vision perfectly. I hope sponsors are already
climbing over each other for next year’s event. They should be
We imagine that this event simply grow and grow
Cutting edge designers and top sailors mixed with a sprinkling of adventurers and dreamers to make an eclectic
mix of 'magnificent men and their flying machines' coming together for a week of foiling fun and frolics
Un vero summit mondiale: tutti i cervelli, i pensatori, gli scienziati (più o meno folli), ma anche i realizzatori, gli
assemblatori, e alla fine gli utenti: i velisti. Tutti i protagonisti del mondo "foiling" reso celebre nella vela dal Moth
e poi soprattutto dall'ultima America's Cup, si sono dati convegno sull'alto Lago di Garda sponda Veronese. L'idea
di The Foiling Week ha sfondato, è passata. Ore a parlarsi nei forum, ore in acqua a provare, osservati da terra da
molte persone interessate. E poi regata, test, amicizia
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12. « UN JOUR, TOUS LES BATEAUX VOLERONT… »
ÉRIC TABARLY
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1977, Photo Bernard Deguy
« UN JOUR, TOUS LES BATEAUX VOLERONT… »
ÉRIC TABARLY
The foiling phenomenon is taking sailing by storm.
Join now and experience the event that is at the heart of the revolution

13. PROPOSAL
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FOILING WEEK TM
is looking for Partners who would like to be part of this
unique foiling event and share the same core values:
Innovation, Technology, Environment and Fun
PRODUCTS SHOWCASE
MAIN PARTNERSHIP
SIDE ACTIVITIESINSHORE/OFFSHORE BRANDING
EVENT TITLE SPONSORSHIP PARTNERSHIP
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the Foiling Week is the
first and only global event
d e d i c a t e d t o t h e
amazingly fast foiling
boats, their sailors,
designers and builders
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Foiling Week
ADDRESS
Corso di Porta Romana 63
20122 Milano
Italy
CONTACT US
info@foilingweek.com
Luca Rizzotti
+39.377.3214818
luca.rizzotti@foilingweek.com
Domenico Boffi
+39.328.9628094
domenico.boffi@foilingweek.com