THE LARGEST SAILING RACE IN THE WORLD
Trieste, 1 - 12 October 2025
Trieste, 1 - 12 October 2025
30.09.23
'Thanks Wendy', Barcolana Young becomes an ambassador of sustainability with sails painted with WWF
A wonderful project to unite sailing with scientific dissemination and environmental education, thanks to the "grant", the donation made by Wendy Schmidt to the WWF and the Miramare Marine Reserve after winning Barcolana54 Presented by Generali. The use of the complete donation will be illustrated at a press conference next Friday by Maurizio Spoto, Director of the Miramare Marine Protected Area,
but some of the activities are already visible at sea, where sharks, turtles and starfish, jellyfish and other endangered species have been sailing in the Barcolana Young since this morning, drawn on sails.
Over the summer, the sailing schools in the Gulf have in fact carried out training on the health of the Adriatic Sea with the WWF and created drawings dedicated to endangered species in each yacht club. Each sailing club in the area thus became an "ambassador" of the project realised by WWF with FIV, Barcolana and the Protected Marine Area of Miramare, and each helmsman sailing with a painted sail had the task of raising the awareness of his teammates and participants for "his" protected animal.
The sailing clubs in the area participated in the project, and lessons were given to both sailing school pupils and instructors, in a great alliance for the benefit of the environment. "A wonderful project, created with the Miramare Marine Reserve and the WWF to also invest Wendy Schmidt's donation in training young sailors. We worked together all summer, told many children about our sea, and visited the Marine Reserve: the goal is that the new generations of sailors that the sailing clubs are training may be more informed, more sensitive to the theme of the sea, ready to play in the front line when it comes to promoting and defending the environment".
but some of the activities are already visible at sea, where sharks, turtles and starfish, jellyfish and other endangered species have been sailing in the Barcolana Young since this morning, drawn on sails.
Over the summer, the sailing schools in the Gulf have in fact carried out training on the health of the Adriatic Sea with the WWF and created drawings dedicated to endangered species in each yacht club. Each sailing club in the area thus became an "ambassador" of the project realised by WWF with FIV, Barcolana and the Protected Marine Area of Miramare, and each helmsman sailing with a painted sail had the task of raising the awareness of his teammates and participants for "his" protected animal.
The sailing clubs in the area participated in the project, and lessons were given to both sailing school pupils and instructors, in a great alliance for the benefit of the environment. "A wonderful project, created with the Miramare Marine Reserve and the WWF to also invest Wendy Schmidt's donation in training young sailors. We worked together all summer, told many children about our sea, and visited the Marine Reserve: the goal is that the new generations of sailors that the sailing clubs are training may be more informed, more sensitive to the theme of the sea, ready to play in the front line when it comes to promoting and defending the environment".
