Racing at the Asian Sailing Championships 2012 gets underway on 17 February through until 25 February 2012. Teams from 24 nations in Asia will gather in Langkawi, Malaysia ready to do battle for the 14 classes in Asian Championship titles. The event is organized by the Malaysia Yachting Association and Asian Sailing Federation.
Yachting Association of India (YAI) in association with Andaman and Nicobar Island Industrial Development Corporation (ANIIDCO) with the aim to showing the local population in the Andaman & Nicobar Islands, the fun and exciting sport of sailing is organising a Sailing Development programme, named “Taking Sailing To Schools” during Oct 2011.
Aprakrita Shankar Narayanan, a student of Dhirubhai Ambani International School is organising a fund raising programme for the Yachting Association of India (YAI) and the Navy Wives Welfare Association (NWWA). As part of this fundraising, Naseeruddin Shah and his troupe “Motley” will perform a 2 hour 15 minutes play titled, “The Caine Mutiny” on 03 Sep 2011 at the Mulla Auditorium, Navy Nagar, Colaba, Mumbai. The funds raised through the programme will benefit both the YAI and NWWA in a proportion of 75% to the YAI and 25% to the NWWA.