Match race regatta
Apply for invitation:
This application must be completed online to ensure a valid application for entry into the event no later than the closing date of February 10th, 2023.
TopCat Academy will answer your application as soon as possible by either sending an invitation or rejecting your application. If a completed entry form is not received, your team will not be eligible for qualifications entry.
Boats: TOPCAT K2X
Qualifying races: round robins, K2X demonstration
Venue: TBD
Dates: May, 2023
HISTORY
Hetman Cup is a prominent international sailing regatta with Ukrainian roots. First Hetman Cup started in 2000 in Kyiv, Ukraine. Previous match race grade 2 of the World of Sailing was held in Kyiv in 2016, however russian invasion interrupted the annual regatta.
Hetman in Ukrainian and Polish languages means head of state or head of military and was elected contrary to tsars or monarchs, who derived their power not from people.
Vadym Hetman was one of the founders of the Ukrainian Central Bank who was assassinated in his own house for his democratic views and championing Freedom.
VALUES AND BELIEFS
We believe that we all are free with inherent and inalienable rights to live and to pursue happiness. Nobody can take away these rights from us.
Many roads can bring you to happiness, but mastery of high performance sailing is one of the best ways.
MISSION
We want to show the World true masters of apparent wind. The Hetman Cup will go to the best.