The sixth edition of "Sail in Festival" in Bilbao has been closed after four days of daily navigation stories, adventures and races for all the public narrated by its protagonists.

09 / 03 / 2019: The "Sail in" award given in Bilbao to the legendary galo navigator Jean Luc Van den Heede

The French navigator Jean Luc Van den Heede has received the SAIL IN award today in the BBK room, a recognition that the sailing culture festival gives to people of unbeatable stele. Van den Heede, 73, arrived on Friday in Bilbao a few weeks after he first proclaimed himself at the Golden Globe Race, a solo tour of the world, without a stop and with all the limitations of navigation and material he made in 211 days, 23 hours and 12 minutes. That is, 100 days less than Sir Robin Knox- Johnston needed at the 1969 Sunday Times Golden Globe. However, it has been his way of doing this and many other feats that have really made him a very dear navigator.

Van den Heede has written one of the most fascinating chapters of the ocean candle with this last epopeia. He has always ended up in the podium positions in all the regatas back to the world he has fought (he was second in the 1986 BOC Challenge Around Alone, third in the 1990 Vendée Globe Race, second in the 1993 Vendée Globe and third in the 1995 BOC Challenge Around Alone), but what most characterizes his profile as a good sailor is that he always takes his ships to good port. In addition, it maintains the record that it established in 2004 by completing the circumnavigation of the planet alone from East to West, along the path contrary to the dominant winds. In fact, no ship, with a single master or with a full crew on board, has been able to lower to date the 122 days the French used.

Prior to the award, the film 'Comme Un Seul Homme', the national premiere of the navigator Eric Beillon, was first ranked in the last Vendée Globe in the category of new participants. Beillon is above all a navigator committed to social causes and his ocean trajectory has always been linked to such projects. His last participation was in the recent Rute du Rhum, on board a beautiful gulet with many ideas per bow.

Tomorrow is the last day of this festival in which Manry at sea will be projected, a documentary that tells the story of a journalist, Robert Manry, who secretly built a four-metre boat in his garage and crossed the Atlantic by recording an incredible journey in a "pop" way.

08 / 03 / 2019: Maiden of Alex Holmes premiered in "Sail in festival" as the star of the program of the day 2

The second day has been dedicated to women in Bilbao

Sail in festival today dedicated to the role of women in the sailing at its 7.30 p.m. session in the BBK Room, with the national premiere of the film Maiden by English director Alex Holmes, reports the trip of the Tracey Edwards, which at its 23 years old, managed to bring together a diverse group of female navigators to turn the world into the Whitbread race, now Volvo Ocean Race.

In addition, two other short films will be planned that will also have several women as protagonists: Lin Pardy, who portrays the cruise navigator with more nautical miles sailing, and La Course de Leur Vie, where Maéva Bardy tells her experience as the on-board report of one of the ships of the last Clipper Race, the round-trip to the world for amateur with skipper.

After the projections there will be a debate on the role of women in the major competition races with the English Libby Greenhalch, a navigator and meteologist, Vicky Ellis, the director of the 'Magenta' project, who tries to help women have more opportunities in the sailing, and Maeva Bardy, next to the Anje- Marijcke Van Boxtel coach of Team Brunel.

The 5 p.m. meeting has been devoted to the Mini Transat. Stan Thuret, a young navigator promise in Mini Transat and also film director, has presented two small short films on his track in the Mini... then the film Sillages, on the story of Ian Lipinski, winner of the last Mini Transat, has been screened.

07 / 03 / 2019: Spectacular opening in Bilbao of the living room for the nautical culture: Sail in festival

Carlo Borlenghi, the full Mapfre team and Santiago Lange open the sixth edition of Sail in Festival in Bilbao

Carlo Borlenghi, an official Rolex photographer, the Copa América and the best circuits of coastal and ocean races, went to Bilbao to officially inaugurate the exhibition he is the author of at the Metro Bilbao stations. The Italian author shows for the first time his work in Bilbao illuminating the walls of Metro Bilbao with twenty images in large format that will be displayed until the end of March at the stations of Moyua - Abando - Santimami / San Mamés and Zazpikaleak / Casco Viejo.

An initiative that serves as an appetizer of the official opening of the 6th edition of SAIL IN Fes- tival which is held in the BBK room and Maritime Museum of Bilbao with more than 20 projections, 15 international rapporteurs, 3 thematic exhibitions and a master class.

At the opening in the BBK room, the Olympic gold medalist from the last Olympics of Rio, Santiago Lange, came with the presentation of the film "The Father of the Wind." In the same way, the equo-po Mapfre with Xabi Fernández, Joan Vila, Pablo Arararte, and Antonio Cuervas- Mons present an unpublished documentary about their passage through the Volvo Ocean Race and receive a tribute from SAIL IN Festival.

The English navigator Abby Ehler and Coach Anje-Marijcke Van Boxtel of Team Brunel join the guest cast of this session by moving to the public how a team is prepared for high sailing competition.

On the 8th, the sessions focus on the role of women in the candle, with the presentation of Libby Greenhalch and Vicky Ellis, director of Magenta Project, who will move after the award of the documentary Maiden's role in integrating women into the major international sailing competitions.

The documentary Maiden deals with how Tracey Edwards managed to get his twenty-three years of age to bring together a varied group of female sailors who would end up with a second place in the general and the victory in the two hardest stages of the entire Whitbread race, ac@-@ tual Volvo Ocean Race.

Sail in Festival with more than 10 scheduled features and the presence of internationally renowned navigators is again a meeting point for the international landscape of the sailing culture.

21 / 02 / 2019: Sail in Festival in Getxo and Bilbao from 7 to 10 March with an exciting planning

Experiences that go from the premiere of "Team Mapfre on the Volvo Ocean Race," to which will pay tribute with the presence on stage of Xabi Fernández, Joan Vila, Antonio Cuervas- Mons... or the premiere of "Maiden" and his female crew who pro- called for ink rivers in the return to the world in 1989

Sail In Festival will hold its sixth edition from 7 to 10 March in the BBK room in Bilbao and the Bilbao Maritime Museum with more than 20 projections, 15 international speakers, 3 thematic exhibitions and a master class with limited capacity.

The fruit of this inertia and naturally covering a gap that industry demands will take place in Getxo, on March 6, the second edition of Sail Inn Pro... a professional meeting day with cases of study of international projects and first-level round tables, where the nautical sector, business and innovation shake hands.

Martin Doloc, creator of Windy, the most seen free weather forecast application in the globe, will expose its development and future. The so-called "rigid wings applied to merchant and maritime transport" revolution will be the subject of a round table, as will the "Clean Energy on board" or the study of Luc Tabouret, by Avel Robotics, on "Smart Fails, Sensorization and Serial Manufacturing." Amy Munro will talk about "Circular economy in the water sector" and give way to the materials that will star them by the biocomposites that Norbert Sedla- lek will develop.

10 Horns' ends, 6 round the world alone, all with podium. Jean-Luc Van Den Heede comes from making a "Everest for the toughest face and the older one," comes from lle- gar first after a solo return to the world, without scales and with all the limitations of navigation and material that have characterized the first edition of the Golden Globe Race. 211 days of navigation, 73 years old, your palmaris speaks for itself, but your way of doing so is what really encourages you to make your figure even more known.

The only national participant of the last Vendée Globe, Didac Costa, who is also going to be a film that afternoon, and the engineer and meteorologist Gabriel Pérez, who advises Kilian Jornet on his challenges, will deliver on Saturday, March 9, at 11: 00 at the Bilbao Maritime Museum, a SAIL IN Class on fundamental weather for sailing: reading the sea, wind and clouds.

SAIL IN FESTIVAL
- The festival takes place from 7 to 10 March in Bilbao
- Its neural center, with the projections and dialogues with the guests, is the BBK room
- Tickets are already for sale on the Kutxabank ATM network
- The master class will be held at the Maritime Museum of Bilbao. The registration is free and open through the web on the 25th with limited capacity.
- All detailed information on the web: www.sailinftival.com

SAIL INN PRO
- The day will be held in OLATUA, Puerto de Bilbao Maritime Station, Getxo on March 6.
- Professional registrations are made through the web: www.sailinnpro.com
- Full program and web participants www.sailinnpro.com