News IODA Finalist in World Sailing 11th Hour Sustainability Award

IODA Finalist in World Sailing 11th Hour Sustainability Award

Public voting closes at 1500 UTC on Thursday 2nd December.

The World Sailing 11th Hour Racing Sustainability Award celebrates the effective execution or ongoing delivery of high-impact, highly-replicable sustainability initiatives aligned to World Sailing’s Sustainability Agenda 2030. The winner will be awarded a $10,000 prize to further their sustainability initiatives.

IODA is one of four finalists. View the announcement here.

 

IODA Award Submission

In 2021, IODA introduced a new Program called ROPE (Recycled Optimist Parts and Equipment).

IODA aims to promote sustainability and social responsibility with its ROPE program by engaging the sailors worldwide to recycle and re-use Optimist Parts and Equipment by sharing with their peers all around the World. The purpose of the program is to promote sustainability, the circular economy, and peer-to-peer support from sailors to sailors.

The program involves sailors bringing extra equipment to IODA Championships, so it can be collected, catalogued and distributed to local sailing schools in need as well as to specific schools, clubs and countries that are in dire need of this equipment, giving it a second life and good use.

The pilot project was successfully introduced at the 2021 Optimist North American Championships in Mexico, and again at the World Championships in Italy where numerous sails and other equipment were generously donated. The recipient at the Worlds was The Yacht Club of Hyderabad Foundation Program in India, that introduces young children from under privileged families to sailing in the Optimist Dinghy.

Other sustainability initiatives of IODA include the recent introduction of a 'Paperless Measurement System" and Mobile APP to completely eliminate the use of paper at IODA events.

Last year IODA introduced a co-branded IODA version of the World Sailing Sustainability Education Programme to Members and Optimist sailors around the globe.

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Public voting closes at 1500 UTC on Thursday 2nd December.

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