Abu Dhabi (Al Ittihad)
Under the patronage of His Highness Sheikh Hamdan bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Ruler’s representative in the Al Dhafra region, the Abu Dhabi Marine Sports Club has approved the date for the Sheikh Zayed Festival for Sailing Bearings 60-foot race, which will start next Sunday, following it was postponed since last January due to weather fluctuations.
The race, which extends over a distance of 25 nautical miles, is scheduled to witness a strong challenge and great excitement, and it is expected that the number of participating bearings will reach more than 100 bearings.
The organization of the race comes within the participation of the Abu Dhabi Marine Sports Club in the various activities and events of the Zayed Festival, which presents the Emirati heritage in its best form, and is known for its valuable vocabulary, including the sailing bearings races that bear the name of the festival, as the club attaches great importance to efforts to preserve the marine heritage. , through the various races that it organizes every season.
The Sheikh Zayed Festival for the 60-foot sailing bearings comes to be one of the important competitions for heritage sports, within the many and varied races that the club successfully organizes throughout the marine racing season in Abu Dhabi, and it is the largest category among the races.
Khalifa Al Rumaithi, Head of the Heritage Races Department at the Abu Dhabi Marine Sports Club, praised the interest and support of the wise leadership for heritage races in all its categories, and appreciated the patronage of His Highness Sheikh Hamdan bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Ruler’s Representative in Al Dhafra Region, pointing out that the Sheikh Zayed Festival race for 60-foot sailing bearings, It is one of the stations during which the participants paint a heritage painting full of meanings of challenge, strength and courage in going to the sea, and it is one of the major heritage events organized by the club, and finds turnout by the owners of bearings, boats and sailors, because it is the largest category among the races of other categories.
He said: The race constitutes a distinguished platform, in the process of preserving the Emirati maritime heritage with its activities and events in the sea waters, which have deep implications and carry many noble meanings and values, as the Abu Dhabi Marine Sports Club pays great attention to heritage races during each season, by holding many of them in The different categories, which record distinct successes, transmit the legacy of grandparents and fathers to generations in all its details, and witness positive interaction from the participants.
Khalifa Al-Rumaithi praised the cooperation and commitment of the sailors and the boatmen with the organizing committee of the club’s races during the last period, which recorded the desired success, and said: We hope that the cooperation will continue in the same spirit in all the upcoming races.