Dark Blue Book

Every so often, you see one of those articles that claims to list the top decision makers or the most powerful or most influential people in an industry. Usually they are not very well researched and ignore focus on only one market, like the USA. Last week, a quite well respected website listed a self [...]

As the America’s Cup announces that there are potentially 15 teams to compete for the next event, the Dark Blue Book 2011 represents a perfect opportunity to keep tabs on the best and the brightest of the yacht racing world. The directory is growing from strength to strength and so we’ve added some new folk [...]

The 3rd edition of the DARK BLUE BOOK – the Who’s who of yacht racing and the sport of sailing will innovate again based on feedback from customers and partners. The 2010 edition has been well received by professional sailors, suppliers to the yacht racing industry and the media, but publishers Pilote Media are keen to keep [...]

2010 has been a strange year in the sport of sailing. The global yacht racing calendar, which features events that happen every two years and four years saw teams, sponsors and other key players in sailing between campaigns. At the beginning of the year, the America’s Cup was down to just 2 teams, Alinghi and [...]

Yachtsponsorship.com in conjunction with the DARK BLUE BOOK are asking the yacht racing industry to let us know what you think. One of the problems with that is, it’s hard to know who or what the yacht racing industry is so we’ve designed a survey to identify what the challenges facing the industry are, what [...]

The DARK BLUE BOOK 2010 edition is asking for your help. In 2009, the companies and individuals who gained the best results from the book were the ones that passed on the opportunity to their partners and friends in the business. For the 2010 edition, we are announcing a new promotion. The submission forms for [...]

Welcome to 2010. In 2009, we published the first ever Who’s Who of the Yacht Racing world. The DARK BLUE BOOK is now well on the way to becoming the definitive directory for the industry. For the first time, we have released an online sample of the 2009 directory. Thanks to feedback from consumers and [...]

The Who’s Who of yacht racing will get together in Monaco next week for the World Yacht Racing Forum. The event will provide a great opportunity to promote the 2nd edition of the DARK BLUE BOOK. At the time of the innaugural World Yacht Racing Forum last December, the DARK BLUE BOOK was just a [...]

Pilote, publishers of the DARK BLUE BOOK, are offering webmasters and bloggers the opportunity to make money from promoting the directory to their audience. The first ever ‘Who’s Who’ of yacht racing contains contact details for some of the most influential people in the sport from team principals to sponsors, journalists and event organisers. Now [...]

The first ever DARK BLUE BOOK – the Who’s Who of Yacht Racing is printed and selling well. Featuring skippers, sponsorship directors, journalists, photographers, event organisers, yacht club commodores and more, the directory is destined to become an invaluable resource for anyone in the business of professional sailing. With the lessons of the first edition [...]