The program of development of sailing and yachting in Sevastopol is designed for 2012-16. Today nearly 400 childron go sailing in Sevastopol. If one unites all water sports (sailing, yachting, and Olympic kinds of sport), the number of people involved there amounts to 3,000. Sevastopol has all necessary conditions for development of sailing and yachting: 158 kilometers of the Black Sea coastline and 35 bays, which do not freeze in winter. Namely for this reason the program on development of these kinds of sport is especially actual. The purpose of the program is to create necessary conditions for development of sailing and yachting, as well as an area of intensive yachting, attractive for tourists of different levels; to develop the infrastructure and sea tourism. It is planned to spend 16 million hryvnias both from the city budget and other sources.
“Any program aimed at developing sport in Sevastopol, in Ukraine, will have a positive result, because there will be no funding unless there are programs,” first vice-president of the Sailing Federation of Sevastopol Oleksandr Virchenko said. “The adopted document will launch the development and promotion of sport: the money will be spent for buying the assembling parts and cutters. Sevastopol has all necessary conditions for the development of sailing, therefore this branch should be developed not on a city level, but on a state scale. The greatest problem in Sevastopol is the lack of a general office where one could gather children in order to involve them in the activities. Our main task is not about raising Olympic champions, rather about bringing up normal people, because people involved in sailing will never become wrongdoers.”
Sailing is a traditional kind of sport for Sevastopol. The city hosts the Cup of the Crimea for the prizes of the Commander-in-Chief of the Ukrainian Armed Forces and the Annual International Regatta, organized by the yacht club Admiral. Sevastopol’s pride and joy is Olympic champion, world-class master of sport in sailing Oleksii Borysov.
