Profile Sailing

September 2009

The Dorchester and Springboard - Major Winners at the Profile Sailing Cup 2009

The Dorchester - 2009 winners

The Dorchester won the 3rd annual staging of the Profile Sailing Cup, with the boutique hotel group The Eton Collection taking the runner’s up spot after two days of highly competitive racing on the Solent and a fantastic networking programme that included dinner at the prestigious Royal Yacht Squadron in Cowes. The regatta also raised in excess of £6,000 during the gala dinner for the regatta’s official charity, The Springboard Charitable Trust. Read More >>>>

   
August 2009

Join Springboard this year in the Profile Sailing Cup

This is an opportunity to join the Springboard team in this year’s award winning Profile Sailing Cup which will take place on 22nd & 23rd September. The event has attracted some of the Hospitality, Leisure, Travel & Tourism Industries top names over the last two years including The Dorchester, Mandarin Oriental, The Berkeley, Claridge's, The Royal Automobile Club, The Eton Group, Jumeirah, The Langham, Small Luxury Hotels and the 2009 event promises to be equally prestigious.

Up to 10 places on board the Springboard boat are available at £550 + VAT (excluding accommodation) each based on a minimum of 8 in the team & we will be making a 20% charitable donation to Springboard.

We are confident that all those participating in the Profile Sailing Cup will find it a valuable way to raise their awareness and network within the industry, entertain clients and reward employees - and we are particularly pleased to have the Dorchester Hotel as our lifestyle partner. The networking and social programme is combined with a comprehensive, yet accessible, race series staged in Hamble, Cowes and on the Solent.

Previous sailing experience is not essential!

The entry list for a full team is also still open – for further information call Simon Boulding at Britannia Corporate Events on 02380 458900

SPRINGBOARD Charitable Trust
Promoting Careers in Hospitality, Leisure, Travel & Tourism
www.springboarduk.net

   
July 2006

PROFILE GBR 9885T shows winning form in 2009

Skanska
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We are delighted to have the commitment of Tim Thubron as our lead skipper on Profile GBR 9885T for 2009 and the results are already beginning to show!
With over 20 years’ experience sailing keelboats; Tim is a qualified RYA/MCA Yachtmaster Offshore skipper and RYA Cruising Instructor. He also holds a BSc (Hons) Degree in Marine Navigation. No stranger to long distance sailing having twice sailed across the Atlantic and raced in many offshore races including the Fastnet, Middle Sea and Round Ireland, yacht racing is his real passion.

Tim has been a class-winner as skipper/tactician in the Fastnet Race, Cowes Week, Cork Week, Antigua Sailing Week and the Round the Island Race and is recognised as one of the most talented 40.7 sailors on the circuit.

Here are some of our highlights year-to-date…

June 2009 - PPI/PFI Challenge Regatta with “Team Skanska” – 1st in Class with five 1sts and one 2nd

June 2009 – Lutine Lineslip Regatta (Insurance Sector) – 3rd overall

May 2009 - Mace Regatta on 29th May - 1st overall

Congratulations!

   
September 2008

Profile sailing Cup 2008

Jumeirah - Winners of The Profile cup 2008

Our 2008 event for the Hospitality and Tourism Sector staged on the 16th and 17th of September with two great days sailing racing and dinner at the Royal Yacht Squadron was the highlight of our sailing the year. Dates for 2008 have been provisionally set for the 22nd and 23rd September and details of the Profile Sailing Asia Cup in Hong Kong are due to be released shortly.

Full details of the event including results and professional photography by Paul Weyth are available buy going to the Profile Sailing Cup section of this website.

Congratulations to winners Jumeriah and thank you to everyone involved for raising over £6,500 for Sail4Cancer and Hospitality Action and a further £2,000 raised for the Silicon Cup Charities thanks to a generous donation from Paul Kerr of Small Luxury Hotels.

Marketing Week

Charters from Attenda and GleedsBlessed on the whole with much more favorable weather conditions, September proved to be an exceptionally busy month for us with a blue chip line up of clients including Gleeds during Little Britain 2008, Marketing Week for the Media Week for the Advertising and Brands Cup and Attenda in the Silicon Cup
   
August 2008

BENETEAU CUP

It was time to get a team from Profile’s London office our on the water with 3 thoroughly enjoyable day’s racing in the Beneteau Cup. Even with the added expertise of Olympiad Robin Aisher on board as our helm in day one a placing in single figures proved quite a challenge in the uber-competitive 40.7 fleet! Congratulations to our partners at Britannia Corporate Events for the brilliant organization.

COWES WEEK

We are told by insider Olly Norris who was crewing on PROFILE GBR9885T with Julian Pearson as skipper that a good deal of fun was had on board this year with client BAT. Guests included some rather enchanting pole dancers we are told! (Congratulations to Olly on passing his Yachtmaster’s Exams by the way!)

   

June 2008

GOOD LUCK to all the team from JPMorgan Asset Management on PROFILE GBR 9885T on Saturday 28th June racing in Round the Island Race

   

May 2008

Mandarin Oriental Hyde Park Team take to the water!

Mandarin Oriental

Six teams from Mandarin Oriental Hyde Park London on matched 40.7s were blessed with fabulous sailing conditions for two days on the Solent organised by our partners at Britannia Corporate Events - with a prize giving dinner at the Royal Corinthian in Cowes.

We are thrilled that the event was such a success and with the feedback from MOHP Human Resources Director, Keith Edwards who rated the event as “EXCELLENT”.

   
 

4th for PROFILE in the MANCHES CUP

Collas Day

Congratulations to Collas Day for 4th place in the 2008 Manches Cup just seconds off a podium position!

   
 

GETTING SHIP-SHAPE

Following an extensive winter refit which Sam and the team at Britannia have kept themselves very busy with, PROFILE was back in business for a day’s sailing with Diamond Advertising and Preferred Hotels in support of Hospitality Action. This kind generosity from Piers Bracher and Peter Haig is much appreciated and they we justly rewarded with beautiful weather!

   
September 2007

Little Britain Challenge Cup

Profile in the lead!

Profile GBR 9885T leads the pack!

We hope the team on board Profile GBT 9885T from SWIFT HORSMAN had a fabulous time at the 2007 Little Britain Challenge Cup! A record breaking 250 boats took part in this year's regatta, and 3rd overall in the Beneteau 40.7 Class was an impressive result for Profile.

For information on Swift Horsman Limited and the Little Britain Challenge Cup:

http://www.swifthorsman.co.uk/projects/index.cfm?item=3
http://www.littlebritain.co.uk/web/code/php/main.php?section=home

   
August 2007

Profile out in Cowes week

Profile GBR 9885T busy in action in Cowes Week under charter to Skandia Investment Management

   
July 2007 The Profile Sailing Cup
 

Following a terrific day's racing on the Solent in a matched fleet of Benetau First 40.7s, teams from The Dorchester, Mandarin Oriental, The Berkeley, Jumeirah, Small Luxury Hotels, The Eton Collection and Profile raised over £3000 for www.sail4cancer.org and everyone’s generosity is hugely appreciated.

Please click here for more and extra photos

   
June 2007

JP Morgan Round the Island Race 2007

JP Morgan Round the Island Race 2007

Great team work achieves a charitable donation of £1000 for the race’s partner charities with first place for PROFILE in the consultant’s division of Britannia fleet of 40.7's, exclusively supplied to the Race Sponsors!

Well done Chris Jackson and the team from LCP Consulting on Profile - 15th Overall in IRC 1B was another good result. The photograph shows Profile approaching the finishing line but in future no lines over the side please chaps!!!!

A fantastic £1,000 cheque from JPMorgan as a charitable donation to the race’s partner charities

   
  Manches Cup
 

Allen & Overy Manches Cup challenge

Allen & Overy We were delighted to see Allen & Overy take 5th place in this year’s Manches Cup on PROFILE; only seconds behind the top three boats sailed by Berwin Leigton Paisner, Collas Day Advocates & Clifford Chance:

Congratulations to the skipper and crew on a great result in very tough racing conditions!

   
April 2007

PriceWaterhouseCoopers
2nd place in Race 9 of the Raymarine® Warsash

Congratulations to the PWC team sailing on Profile GBR 9885T for 2nd place in Race 9 of the Raymarine® Warsash Spring Series, just 20 seconds behind Skandia on Parallel Blue GBR 1602R and closely followed by fellow Britannia stable mate Combat GBR 9905T – an encouraging start to the racing season!

   
February 2007:

Profile - Skipper: Chris Jackson

Profile Skipper: Chris 'Jacko' JacksonGood Sailing! As a further endorsement to our close partnership with Britannia Corporate Events, we are delighted to confirm that Chris “Jacko” Jackson will be Profile’s lead skipper for 2007. The attached CV outlines Chris’s professional background, including over 6 years with Britannia and experience totally over 30,000 nautical miles at sea. For those of you lucky enough to sail with Chris you will find yourselves in the hands of a very talented young man who is not only a great sailor & talented skipper, but delightful company to be with. [read Chris's profile]

 

Profile takes to the water…

Gail Norris naming 'Profile'On Saturday 24th February, a party at Port Hamble to celebrate our new boat’s official naming was enjoyed by a number of friends and family from Profile Sailing’s parent company in London and representatives from Britannia, Sail4Cancer and Ancasta.

Profile Sailing’s founder Mark Norris, thanked everyone involved in the building process and shared his future vision the project, introducing Connie Carroll who talked with passion about Sail4Cancer’s work. Further good news came from Simon Boulding, Marketing Manager of Britannia Corporate Events who announced that Corum Watches had been confirmed at the official timekeeping sponsor for the Profile Sailing Cup together with The Dorchester as our 'Lifestyle Partner'

Before the official naming ceremony was conducted by Mark’s wife Gail, he explained the tradition of Champagne being poured over the bow to appease King Neptune and a branch with green leaves on the deck, was to ensure a safe return each time the boat sails.; also the hope that Profile would be a happy ship, to be cared for by good fortune, to be a proud yet modest winner, and to sail safely at all times. Naming 'PROFILE', Gail added '“May God bless her & all who sail in her'.

   
January 2007: Sir Keith MillsSir Keith MILLS, the British businessman who ran London’s victorious bid to host the 2012 Olympic Games and Paralympic Games, has announced he is to create a new British America’s Cup sailing team. The team, to be named ORIGIN, will comprise some of the world’s leading sailors and boat designers from Great Britain and beyond. The name ORIGIN is a reference to Britain’s involvement in the creation of the America’s Cup in 1851. Rod CARR, Chief Executive of the Royal Yachting Association, commented, 'British sailing has never been more successful than it is today. We are the world’s strongest sailing nation; our Olympic medal count is higher than any other British sport, whilst ocean racing heroes such as Dame Ellen MACARTHUR and Dee CAFFARI have ruled the waves. In my view there are three peaks in competitive racing. Britain has already scaled the heights in the Olympic and offshore arena and I believe we have the talent and expertise to create a winning America’s Cup team.'
   
January 2007: Dorchester Hotel London signs with Britannia Events as life style partner helping us to promote a series a major regattas including JPMorgan round the Island Race, The Beneteau Cup, Skandia Cowes Week & the Rolex Fastnet Race, Little Britain Challenge Cup and of course our own Profile Sailing Cup for the Hospitality, Tourism and Travel industries.
   
December 2006: Profile Sailing establishes our partnership with Britannia Events and signs with sail4cancer as a nominated charity
   
September 2006:

Round The Island

The Island Sailing Club’s ever-popular Round the Island Race, sponsored by JP Morgan will take place on Saturday 23rd June 2007 and with the start sequence scheduled earlier so competitors can make best use of the favourable tide from Cowes down to The Needles. Traditionally, the first start has been no earlier than 6am but following feedback from competitors it has been decided to bring this forward to 5am! Peter Dickson, Commodore of the Island Sailing Club, said: "For the past two years we have had very light conditions for the initial stage of the race, so a fair tide on the line has been all-important. The earlier start will benefit all competitors"

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