St. Petersburg hosts Russian Dragon Open 2013, Jun 25-30
Russian Championship of Dragon Class yacht racing “Russian Dragon Open 2013” will be held in St. Petersburg, the Gulf of Finland, 25-30 June. The regatta will be hosted by the local yacht club “Hercules”, St. Petersburg. The championship will bring together all the strongest Russian yachtsmen, the event organizing committee told PortNews.
Following the results the winners of Russian Dragon Open will be awarded in several test rating categories: Open Championship, Team Championship of Russia and Dragon Classic.
The teams include yachtsmen from Moscow, St. Petersburg, Anapa, Perm, Togliatti, Sevastopol, Minsk and Dnepropetrovsk.
Currently, Dragon Class is the most numerous of keelboats: there are 1,650 yachts of the class registered in International Class Association (IDA) and about 70 Dragon-class boats represented in Russia.