City Council of Bilbao, Diputación de Bizkaia, Gobierno Vasco, Museo Marítimo Ria de Bilbao, BBK, BMW Enekuri Motor and Puerto Bilbao have collaborated in this edition of SAIL IN Festival... in the image the rapporteurs

SAIL IN closed its fifth edition, which has marked a before and after in the history of this cultural initiative that collects cinema, talks, exhibitions, masterclass and a new day for professionals. In addition to bringing together in Bilbao the most relevant personalities at the international level in the sailing world, such as the recall François Gabart or the legend Loïck Peyron, he has also managed to move everything around this passion not only to the fans of this type of navigation, but to an audience totally alien to it.

The two films premiere about François Gabart, a record of the return to the world by sailing alone and without scales with his MACIF trimaran; the premiere for Europe of Coyote a Thomas Simmons film that tells the life of the legendary Mike Plant; the new challenge of Susie Goodall, the only woman participating in the new Golden Globe Race; the history of the Fabbri family, who explore high latitudes on board a small sailboat accompanied by his four children; These are some of the stories that most excited the public of SAIL Festival in the BK Room. The public enjoyed memorable moments like Alex Pella interviewing Loïck Peyron, Susie Goodall along with Don Mcityre or Vincent Lauriot-Prévost with Emmanuel Bachellerie talking about the Ultim Class.

Lalou Roucayrol, a navigator working together with Arkema, spoke about the new sustainable materials of boat manufacturing, a theme that aroused a lot of interest among the attendees, as the competition ships are built with these materials. Roger Frigola of Team New Zealand, Manolo Ruiz of Elvira, and José Luis Vela discussed the technology developed at the Copa América, as well as the opportunities and lines of work that will be opened in this field in the near future.

02 / 03 / 2018: It starts very hard in Bilbao SAIL IN FESTIVAL

Manolo Ruiz Elvira, Roger Frigola and José Luis Vela in Bilbao

SAIL INN PRO, the new professional day of SAIL IN, which together with the cultural festival is held these days in Bilbao, has gathered this morning at the Euskalduna Palace half a hundred professionals from the nautical sector, innovation and business. A pioneering event supported by the Diputación de Bizkaia that has already served in this first edition to close contacts between national and foreign agents with a view to generating future projects together.

The day has started with a presentation by naval engineer Manolo Ruiz Elvira who has reviewed the evolution of technology in the world of sailing in the last 50 years. A theme that has served as perfect before everything that would come next.

He then took the floor Lalou Rousayrol, from the company Archema, with a session dedicated to the new sustainable materials of the manufacture of ships, a theme that has aroused a lot of interest among the attendees, as the competition ships are built with these materials. In addition, the technological centres of the area, Tecnalia and Tekniker, as well as other industrial companies, have transmitted their knowledge on this subject to the nautical sector.

After a pause to encourage networking, the next session, with the XX Roger Frigola at the head, has been dedicated to Big Data and artificial intelligence for sailing, with a round table discussion on the technology developed in the American Cup, as well as the opportunities and lines of work that will be opened in this field in the near future.

The last talk of the morning has been focused on the clusters and technological development centres of the nautical, in which there has been talk of the importance of co-operation to develop business opportunities in the sailing. Carole Bourlon de Eurolarge, David Rosa de Microsoft & Sports Innnovation, Jokin Garatea de Cluster Gaia and Fernando Quero de Tecnalia participated.

22 / 02 / 2018: The SAIL IN that begins on the first of March was presented in Bilbao

SAIL IN Festival disembarks in Bilbao with an international sample of the candle

SAIL IN Festival has presented in Bilbao the full programming of its fifth edition, which will be held from 1 to 4 March in the BBK room of the capital Vizcána and the Museo Marítimo Ria in Bilbao, with developments such as the first professional day SAIL INN PRO, which will bring together experts in the latest technological and industrial advances in the sector. The festival celebrates its lustre of tour with more than 20 activities and more than 15 speakers dedicated to the culture of sailing, including great names of the world of sailing at the highest level, such as François Gabart who has just pulverized the record of the return to the world sailing alone with his trimaran "Macif"

- SAIL INN PRO is the new industry-oriented professional day. It will have the presence of Iris Córdoba, director of the Global Sports Innovation Cen-ter of Microsoft and Carole Bourdon, president of the industrial nautical cluster Eurolarge, among other international and national rapporteurs.

- On March 1 at 7.30 the festival will open its fifth edition in the BBK room with the European premiere of the feature film "Coyote" and the presence of its director, the American Thomas Simmons.

- Loïck Peyron, representative of the best French school of ocean regatists, will receive in person the Tributo SAIL IN and François Gabart will present in first place two new documentaries on his last feat, the record back to the world in the single and without scales.

- The lawyer specialized in Copa América Luis Sáenz Mariscal and the naval architect Juan Kouyoumdjian will offer the master class at the Ria Maritime Museum in Bilbao and the tickets were exhausted in 48 hours.

09 / 02 / 2018: Attractive programming of "Sail In Festival" in its fifth edition in Bilbao

SAIL IN Festival presents its fifth edition, which will be held from 1 to 4 March in the BBK room in Bilbao, with more strength than ever, announcing the presence of great personalities from the world of the highest level sailing, such as François Gabart who has just pulverized the record of the return to the world by sailing alone with his MACIF trimaran in 42 days 16 hours 40 minutes and 35 seconds.

Another of the milestones of these days of sailing for the public is the SAIL IN Tribute, which is dedicated to the mythical Loïck Peyron, faithful representative of the best French school of ocean regatists, with an unsurpassed sports curriculum and charism that have made him an icon of the values of the sailing.

Thomas Simmons will present 'Coyote', in a rigorous premiere for Europe, a very personal film that tells the life of his uncle, the legendary Mike Plant, disappeared at sea.

The training-oriented proposals, the SAIL IN Class, which are held at the Museo Marítimo Ria in Bilbao, will have two interesting speakers this year. Luis Sáenz Mariscal, lawyer and navigator with 25 years of experience in America's Cup and one of the artists of the victory of the Emirates Team New Zealand in Bermuda 2017, and the naval architect Juan Kouyoumdjian, who will report his experience in the design of ships of ocean races.

SAIL IN Festival was born in 2014 as a necessary project to cover the absence of scenarios that spread the past, present and future of sailing in the broadest sense of the word and values that this discipline entails. A cross-sectional vision and a direct format that since the first edition convinced the great names of the national and international sailing, making them naturally ambassadors of this unique and pioneering initiative in the world.