The Art of Yachting

World Class Sailing Silverware

 Azure designs and produces stainless steel sail sculptures, trophies and prizes for some of the world's most prestigious regattas. These are either displayed or have been presented at numerous international yacht clubs. The designs can be purchased as striking and modern art pieces for the home or office. Works, such as that presented at the 'Yachtsman of The Year Awards', are available from several selected galleries and also direct from the artist. Azure made all the awards for the Pantaenius young sailor of the year. These were presented at the 2011 Excel boat show and Azure  made them again for 2012 when Annabel Vose and Megan Brickwood won and they were presented by Iain Percy

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The Westward Cup, inaugurated by the Royal Yacht Squadron, the New York Yacht Club and the Yacht Club of Monaco to celebrate the launch of the schooner Westward was a must see classic event. The line up included Mariquita, Mariette and Tuiga. Boat International  commissioned Azure to design and make the trophies and prizes for their race day for this very prestigious event. We  created unique sail sculptures for their superyacht regatta at the YC Costa Smeralda in Porto Cervo.

The Audi Med Cup , held at a series of venues round the Mediterranean in TP52s and Soto 40s has a line up of multi gold medal winning sailing talent in each competing team. Azure  made the prizes for the Marseilles  and Cagliari venues and will make them again for the next  event of the circuit at Cartagena and again for the final regatta at Barcelona. Watch it on Audi medcup tv- it makes for spectacular sailing at some very lovely and photogenic locations.

The Superyacht Cups in  Antigua, Palma and the YC Costa Smeralda, Porto Cervo.  Azure has designed and made the prizes for the Pantaenius race days as well as the Offshore Racing Congress world championship in Flensburg.

The 'sailor of the year ' trophy for sailing team Germany ( the german olympic sailing team)was designed and made by Azure

Azure made the corinthian trophy for the 2011 quarter ton cup at Cowes

 RS sailing supports the RYA's On Board scheme to get young people into sailing and there are 3 new awards commissioned by RS and the RYA. The RS Tera , RS 500 worlds and RS 100 nationals and european regatta prizes also came from Azure.

The 'boat of the week' for Cork Week is an Azure design

The Lymington Town SC winter series already has trophies for IRC class 1 and to this will be added a new one for the RS Elite class

The first Beneteau 31.7 nationals had Azure trophies for the IRC rated boats and the level rating class.   

 Azure makes the lifetime achievement award presented by Boating Business and this year it went to Mr Grazebrook of Halyard, as well as the rest of the annual awards for Mercator Media

The  Westmacott regatta to celebrate the designs of Alfred Westmacott  had Azure designed prizes. The classes participating include the Portsmouth Victorys , the X boats, and the Sunbeams

There was a presentation to Dee Caffari by Portsmouth City Council to celebrate her achievement in the Vendee Globe and in sailing round the world against the prevailing winds and tides.

The Raymarine sponsored Warsash spring series and the Southerly Cup  had Azure designs as prizes                                                                                     

There was a new design for the Laser SB3s and there were several regattas for a series of these this year including one won by the current world champion. The laser SB3 'city of cape town' won the Boat of the Week trophy at Cork Week that was designed and made by Azure as was a 'foiling' trophy for the Bloody Mary pursuit race at QMSC sponsored by Hyde sails

Well done to the winners of the Garmin sponsored Hamble river winter series. Azure made the trophies for this well supported event

Congratulations to all medal winners and the unsung heroes behind the scenes who contributed to team GBR's outstanding success at the Beijing Olympic Games, Azure looks forward to supporting team GBR between now and 2012

The 25th anniversary superyacht regatta of Boat International at the YC Costa Smeralda - Porto Cervo  had stunning new trophies from Azure as had the Artemis Challenge for the Volvo 60s at Cowes Week.

For the Artemis  Transat, Musto  chose an Azure design for their Newfoundland Trophy  presented for the IMOCA open 60 first across the race gate at Newfoundland. Congratulations to Loick Peyron for winning it.

Congratulations also to Tuiga the 19 metre from the YC Monaco on winning class 0 at classic week. The gaff cutter shown is an Azure design

Azure Dragon exhibited at the 2008 , 2009 and 2010 Dusseldorf Boat  Shows and  returned in 2011 . The full range of  designs was on display .

 Azure made one of the trophies for the round Britain powerboat race

There was also  a proposal for a large stainless steel sail sculpture for the 2012 Olympic site at Weymouth.

 Azure Dragon has lots of ideas for the racing ( or cruising) sailor. They make excellent Christmas or birthday presents. The first Elan regatta and the Intel regatta had Azure prizes as had many other events including the first RS Tera nationals at Hill Head SC,the Ancora Cup at Lubeck ( Ancora Marina is the largest in Germany) and the Flying Dutchman class northern area championship.

 The Warsash spring series again had an Azure design as first prize as did the RS Feva and RS Tera worlds in Sweden. Azure made all the awards for the RS regatta on lake Garda

Azure  designed and made the overall black group and white group trophies for  Skandia Cowes Week

For the  Volvo Ocean Race Azure  designed the Musto seamanship award for an outstanding example of seamanship during each leg .

Presentation for Ellen Macarthur

The Royal Ocean Racing Club  commissioned a sculpture to be presented to her to celebrate her record breaking voyage. This takes the form of an albatross circling the world. Ellen heads up the 'save the albatross' campaign and the sculpture was on the Azure Dragon stand

Azure strongly supports classic yachting and provides all the trophies for the British Classic Yacht Club regatta at Cowes. See www.britishclassicyachtclub.org .There  was keen competition from the 6 metres in the build up to the world championship and metre regatta at Cowes. Azure made the silverware when 60 boats raced for the world championship at Cowes. There were new designs for overall first, second and third for both classics and moderns as well as a 'prix d' elegance' for the most beautiful yacht. It was  a truly classic summer with some very graceful boats out racing.

In 2008 the BCYC/ metre regatta was the one to watch with Mariquita, Mariette, Tuiga,and the Lady Anne, when the  big class yachts from a byegone era returned to Cowes. There was a new Azure design for these which was won by Tuiga.

Azure also has as its charity sail4cancer , and increased its involvement  with the Manches Cup. S4C was the official charity for the 2007 6 metre worlds , classic week and metre regatta .Azure also supplies the silverware for a number of fund raising events around the country.

A prestigious event deserves unique well designed prizes worth winning and Azure was created to deliver these qualities