Sailing (sport)

Sailing

Inshore yacht racing on Sydney Harbour
Highest governing body	World Sailing
Nicknames	Sailing/Yachting
First played	18th century
Characteristics
Contact	No
Mixed sex	Mixed
Type	Outdoor
Presence
Olympic	1900–present[1]

The sport of sailing is racing other boats around a track or course which is marked with floating buoys or other fixed marks. Boats can be from small dinghies to large yachts. Usually, the small boats will just race each other and be of the same type. This is called one-design racing. Larger boats will often be of different sizes and race with a handicap system.

1. ↑ Olympic Studies Centre (March 2015). "SAILING: History of Sailing at the Olympic Games" (PDF). stillmed.olympic.org. International Olympic Committee. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2017-03-07. Retrieved 2017-03-07.