FD Future kicks off AnTa 2025 Yunnan Plateau Lakes and Mountains Series
by Carren Shi 8 May 07:07 BST
2 & 4 May 2025
On May 2nd and 4th, FD Future kicks off AnTa 2025 Yunnan Plateau Lakes and Mountains Series: The Nine Great Lakes Sailing League with 30 FD Future boats nearly 100 participants for both regattas in XingYun Lake and YiLong Lake. Participants are from primary schools, universities and Families, aged from just 6 years old, teenagers to adults.
The sailing regattas are held together with the Marathon race, this practice in fact put sailing forward to the general public. In China, you will notice a trend in promoting tourism, sport and cultural with sports events such as marathon and sailing.
FD Future boats are sailed both single and double handed by the junior youth, teenagers and adults. Many of them are very new to sailing, they conducted a few weekends practice in sailing and had shown great confidence on the water with very light wind of just 2 knots on Day 1 and 10-14 knots of wind on day 2. The mixed groups make it very fun, bothers and sisters, schoolmates, fathers/ mothers and sons/daughters and university classmates.
We believe sailing is education, it is more than a sport! The youth can learn so much on the water that the classroom can not offer in expectation management, crisis management and communication, team collaboration and communication. It is a great sport to develop a lifelong attachment with the water.
May in Yunnan is the best season to visit, plateau scenery with mountains and lakes, blossom flowers and seasonal speciality fruits, you will just love it.
XingYun lake is just a mountain apart from the well known FuXian Lake with coastal line of 36.3 kilometres, a total lake area of 34.71 square kilometres, average depth is 7 meters and deepest is 10 meters.
YiLong Lake is located in ShiPing County, considered as the mother lake for ShiPing County people. The lake area is 35.67 square kilometres with average water depth is just 2.75 meters, deepest is 6.55 meters.
Both XingYun Lake and YiLong Lake are part of the 9 Plateau Lakes in Yunnan province. Mr. Deng, the organiser and the rainmaker of sailing in Yunnan is planning to organise 9 FD Future regattas across those 9 lakes in the coming years. Mr. Deng commented: The Nine Plateau Lakes Sailing Regatta is the seeds spreading machine to spread sailing seeds to those 9 lakes with a vision for new sailing local clubs built and to promote sailing to the youth and families.
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