Recently more and more Russians are interested in sailing. About one thousand enthusiasts from Russia study in sailing schools and half of them obtain a international skippers license every year. But it is still not that many for such a big country like Russia.
MainSail.Ru is a Russian professional internet-media focused on sailing and yachting. The main idea of our Internet magazine is to make sailing more popular in Russia. We pay attention to everything that can be useful and interesting for amateur sailors: safety at sea, charters and charter companies, sailing schools, sailing courses and instructors, cruising regions, regattas, flotillas and sailing news. We are also writing about famous yachtsmen, worldwide regattas, boats, racing classes, sea travels and so on.
MainSail.Ru is a sailing lifestyle media and a club for cruising sailors.
Our readers like the sea and spend all their holidays sailing. Taking charter boats, cruising the seas, organizing private flotillas and regattas, our readers are bringing back their experiences and impressions to the pages of MainSail.Ru.
We are publishing cruising news, charter companies offers and news, sailing schools' training and offers for experienced cruising sailors. On our pages newcomers can find opportunities to go sailing with experienced skippers, to choose the proper sailing school or special sailing courses. From time to time we organize special sailing training courses with experienced and certified instructors.
Certified RYA and IYT instructors are publishing useful tips and hints in MainSail.Ru. Charter companies' managers, sailing experts are sharing their expertise in boat rentals and cruise arrangements.
Mainsail.Ru has more that 100 articles, 500 news and a 1000 pictures every year.
MainSail.Ru has more than 3000 readers monthly and our audience is constantly growing. We are happy to interact with the most active cruisers and people starting to consider sailing.
Here we publish charter prices overview, charter companies' news, information about new marinas and cruising areas, interviews with charter companies representatives, articles about new charter boats and destinations + cruising advices.
We are monitoring the news about Russian and foreign sailing schools. Our articles are about sailing education systems, training courses and examinations. We are also publishing interviews with sailing instructors.
This is our focus: the articles about safety training, safety equipment, weather, navigation, sailing incidents etc. and we are publishing stories about extremely difficult situations in the sea.
Every sailing cruise is unique, even when there was nothing special happening. But other people's stories can be very useful in particular details, which we are happy to publish. You can find readers' stories and advices on this page.
