Sponsors & Supporters

We are fortunate enough to have the generous support of the following companies and governing bodies. Without whom our campaign would be a lot harder!

The UK Sports Institute is the name given to a network of centres and a central team of experts that supports UK athletes.

AIRBUS UK

Airbus is one of only two aircraft manufacturers in the market for large commercial airliners. It designs, builds, sells and supports commercial aircraft with a capacity of 100 seats or more.

With its Central Office in Toulouse, France, Airbus boasts the most modern and comprehensive airliner family in the world and consistently captures about half of all commercial airliner orders. More than 2,500 Airbus aircraft are currently in operation with 189 operators in all regions of the globe.

Airbus reached a turnover of US$17.2 billion in 2000 and had booked more than 4,300 orders by the end of July 2001. It produces more than one aircraft every working day and this rate keeps increasing.

On July 11th, Airbus formally became a single integrated company, with retroactive effect from 1st January 2001, thus passing another major milestone in its history of achievements since its creation as a consortium in 1970.

All Airbus resources and know-how located in France, Germany, Spain and the UK have now been consolidated into a single standard operating company, under the day-to-day control of a single management team.

The integration of all its functions enables Airbus to obtain even greater efficiency through the concentration of purchasing power, faster decision making and a direct control over costs. Synergies thus generated are expected to reach at least 350 million euros per annum by 2004.

The new company is established as a French simplified joint stock company or S.A.S. (Société par Actions Simplifiée) and two shareholders, the European Aeronautic Defence and Space Company (EADS) and BAE SYSTEMS of the UK respectively hold 80 per cent and 20 per cent of the new stock.

Holt has been one of the leading pioneers in small sailboat hardware for over 50 years. Without straying too far from its founding principles, it continues to make affordable, high performance products for the marine market in time and within budget.

With so many keen, championship-winning sailors working for Holt, the feedback on products and ideas is constant. Its internal research, combined with information provided by Team Holt sponsored jockeys, gives the company a real insight in to the way the sport will develop and performance further increased. The Team Holt programme has allowed the company to amass a wealth of knowledge and many great ideas for future product developments.

Providing support to top national and international sailors ensures we keep pace with the needs of modern sailboats. Our products get tested to their limits in boats such as 18ft Skiffs and the Olympic 49er. But it is not just destruction testing that's important, classes such as the Topper, 29er & 420 also play an important role in our design strategy. Every Team Holt sailor contributes valuable feedback that helps us to improve and evolve the range of products that we supply to all our customers.

One of the largest synthetic fibre rope manufacturers, Marlow employs over 300 people at its factory, in the South of England. Based on its original site of 12 acres, where cordage has been made since 1803, Marlow has built up a strong reputation in rope manufacture and is instantly recognised by the sailing world as the leading yacht rope manufacturer.

The yacht rope designer has a choice of fibre type, fibre presentation, U.V. treatment, strand and rope construction best suited to the different requirements of sheets, halyards, guys, anchor warps, mooring lines. In making such selections Marlow is able to tap into a large reservoir of development that has been carried out over the past 4 decades.

A worldwide insistence on Marlow products has lead to a network of professional distributors in over 40 countries offering top quality products and services. The focus of the company is on the future and ensuring that Marlow continues to develop and supply quality products for the world's sailing fraternity well in to the next century.

Douglas Gill is a premier manufacturer of marine clothing leading the way in ground breaking technology. Working with the World's top sailors, Gill has pioneered many of the products we take for granted today. Everyone at Gill works towards the same goal ensuring every sailor is as comfortable as possible. Gill designers work closely with sailors at all levels, from Round the World yachtsmen to Olympic sailors, to ensure their gear is always at the cutting edge.

At a time when many leading boat insurers are increasing premiums by up to 30% craftinsure.com have harnessed cutting edge technology to deliver premium price reductions

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