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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.

Ganapathy KC and Varun Thakkar won a bronze medal for India in 29er class at the 15th Asian Sailing Championship 2012 at Langkawi, Malaysia. They sailed the series very consistently finishing all races in the top 4 to finish 3rd overall with a total of 32 points and also became the first ever Indian youth team to win a medal at Asian Sailing Championships conducted overseas. Indian girls team of Varsha Gautham and Aishwarya Chezhiyan finished 5th overall with 52 points. A total of 7 teams from 4 countries took part in the 29er class which included the 2010 Optimist World Champion Noppakao Poonpat of Thailand.