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SPONSORSHIP PROPOSAL skipper TOM DOLAN the flying Irishman ! overcoming challenges together the MINI 6.50 class .......... 3 MENU reasons to sponsor .......... 4 calendar 2016/2017 .......... 5 TOM DOLAN, BIOgraphy .......... 6 my boat, the Pogo3 .......... 7 Medias .......... 8 press .......... 9 skipper Budget .......... 10 becoming a sponsor .......... 11 Designed by Arnaud Decotte | schizographes.com Decotte Arnaud by Designed sponsoring opportunities .......... 12-14 TOM Contacts .......... 15 DOLAN the flying irishman ! overcoming challenges together A breeding Ground of Champions Offshore Racing is popular in France. An example The people relate to the challenges, the simplicity, the beauty, the friendships of commitment that are born. The stories of men and Sailing is a leading international sporting women who share a common passion. sector waiting to be discovered. The Class Mini is the heart of the Mini 3 Many of sailings greatest talents and ideas 650 Circuit. It is a non-profit have bloomed from the “Mini 650”, the class of organization, which is affiliated to the the small 6.5m ocean-crossing boats. French Sailing Federation. It’s aims are Sport, business, to encourage innovation through single These boats are genuine laboratories of human values and double handed offshore racing. innovation and design, as well as breeding They control the safety of these small The Mini grounds for talent. Through its ethos and boats and their skippers Transat inventiveness, the Mini 650 always provides a LABORATOry the unexpected. As with all Mini 650 races, the Mini of INNOVATION Transat is run under several strict rules: the mini transat The sea, the ocean and everything around sailing is quite a special yet difficult - Singlehanded. Complete The Mini Transat is an unparalleled internatio- autonomy of the skippers, nal competition, considered the most extreme environment. It requires a lot of investment on different levels; sporting, group, meaning no communication of the transatlantic races. For many, it has with the land. skipper been the first step to becoming a champion. It entrepreneurial, historic, personal A real industry has developed around the is held every two years and remains authentic - No navigational aids apart from and accessible. challenges presented and cutting edge technologies are continuously being a simple GPS and paper charts TOM developed as both human and Competing on this circuit and racing in the - A respect of the environment. prestigious Mini Transat can be compared to technological limits are being pushed further. Boats are beginning to fly. The boats to be energy managing a business. There are difficult times utonomous and to return with all DOLAN and magical moments. The challenges we waste produced at sea. the flying irishman ! encounter and the risks we take when crossing the Atlantic alone force us to think quickly and be creative. Overcoming Challenges Together Your Team building A Management Defending Business’s image within your Tool Values business Sailing, and the Class Mini, convey Unite your team through a Encourage initiative, promote the strong images which can be image and the commitments of your Sports and adventure sponsorship is a Different type of project, a strong highlighted to your clients and your business. way of creating internal cohesion. A project. A project that resembles team: passion, courage, rigor, formidable unifying tool allowing people your business, your clients and your solidarity, will power, teamwork, to share a common goal, to support their employees adventure and endurance skipper. Involve your business. A business which is sensitive to the drive and actions of an individual in the name of a team. Human values 4 and values for Make the most your business of Events A partnership with a sporting challenge such as this is a way of Bring you, your staff and your most building links within a team through valued clients sailing on the boat. The ++ sharing common objectives. Watch race starts first hand and be Showcasing our ability to overcome there to greet the skippers as they REASONS many obstacles. arrive on board a powerboat. Promote your business and TO SPONSOR its activities. Gain access to sponsoring, media exposure and internal communication, at little A project expense to your business. skipper bringing business A different Share, exchange and network together and dynamic with different businesses form Of across multiple sectors. TOM The project rests on the regrouping communication Build team spirit. of multiple businesses of different DOLAN sizes and from different sectors Create and encourage Discover the industry that the flying irishman ! around a common idea and slogan commitment, empathy and surrounds sailing . encompassing courage, tenacity, involvement within people through solidarity, commitment and risk a common passion. taking. overcoming challenges together SEPT.OCT.NOV 2017 WINTER 2016/2017 Mini Transat La Rochelle/ Training at the August 2017 Gran Canaria / Mini Training Centre Martinique in Concarneau Transgascogne 4000 miles single handed 600 miles French Offshore JUne 2017 single handed Racing Championship APRIL 2017 APRIL 2017 Mini Pornichet Fastnet Lorient BSM Select 6.50 600 miles 150 miles 300 miles single handed double handed doublehanded French Offshore Racing Championship JUNE 2017 Trophée 5 MAY2017 Marie-Agnès Péron Mini en Mai 220 miles 500 miles single handed single handed French Offshore Racing Championship CALENDAR 2016/17 skipper TOM DOLAN THE FLYING IRISHMAN ! OVERCOMING CHALLENGES TOGETHER MAIN From dream RESULTS to reality 2016 It was in 2009 that Tom left for France with a dream He was now based in the Mecca of sailing and he of racing across the oceans, a world little known of in began crewing and racing regularly. He learned the Les Sables d’Olonne / Ireland, especially coming from a small farm in the language and became fondly referred to as “the most Les Açores / Meath countryside. From a young age Tom worked Breton of the Irish”. In 2012 he got his first taste of Les Sables TH with cattle and sheep in the wind and the rain and the the Mini Transat Class in a double handed race d’Olonne...................... 7 mud. Aged 9, on a small lake not far from his home, around the Fastnet rock and back. Despite finishing Mini Fastnet................ TH he first took to the water in a little wooden dinghy last he was hooked. 5 which he and his father had renovated. Trophée He set of to work for himself and began to make a Unfortunately, as it remains quite an inaccessible Marie-Agnès Peron.... 1ST sport in Ireland he left sailing behind and spent his living from all things sailing: deliveries, training, race teenage years in pursuit of a normal life, career and boat preparation and recovery. He managed to notch Mini mai ...................... 1ST 6 job. But in the back of his mind he always felt a up over 30 thousand miles including three Atlantic yearning for the sea. crossings. In 2014 a chance encounter with an old Lorient Glenans member gave him access to a Mini for his Bretagne Sud ............. 6TH When he was 19 he was given the opportunity of own use. He set out to compete in the infamous Mini becoming a volunteer with the Glenans Sailing School Transat race in 2015 in Baltimore, Co. Cork, a French organization, based there since 1969. In exchange for their time and Despite arriving in 22nd place, Tom managed to rd labour, it ofered people the chance to learn about finish as second rookie overall in the annual rankings 3 dial sailing and the sea. After volunteering with them for and decided to persist with ofshore racing. So in mon BIO several months, he was ofered a paid position and 2016 he came back with a blast and a new boat. The 6.50 classemini Tom bade farewell to the normal life of a landlubber! first race of 2016 resulted in him becoming the first Irish person to win a solo race in France, breaking After a few years, he was ofered the opportunity to years of local dominance. He now aims to be the first train professionally at the largest Glenans base in one to step onto the podium of the Mini Transat in Concarneau, in western Brittany. 2017 skipper OFFSHORESAILING.FR TOM To help finance the 2015 Mini Transat, Tom joined up with his friend and co-skipper Francois Jambou and together they DOLAN began ofering sailing lessons on their boats. They soon realized that there was quite a strong demand for their services as the flying irishman ! people were attracted by the speed and manoeuvrability ofered by these small boats. In 2016 they decided to work in a more professional manner and Ofshoresailing.fr was born. Since then they have trained over 40 sailors from many nationalities: OFFSHORE Irish, German, French, Belgian, Austrian, Chinese. Ofshoresailing.fr also ofers boat preparation services, project SAILING.FR management (Mini, Transquadra) and very shortly will cater for crewed racing and team building activities for businesses. OVERCOMING CHALLENGES TOGETHER CONCARNEAU www.ofshoresailing.fr 7 MY BOAT Technical THE POGO3 specifications Length overall 6.50 m Maximum width 3 m Draft 1.60 m Displacement 920 kg skipper sailS TOM Mainsail 24m² DOLAN Jib 17m² THE FLYING Irishman ! Code 5 38m² Spinnaker 74 m² overcoming challenges together Communication results of the Mini Transat 32 Million French Online are interested Tracking : in sailing 11 Million visits Etude réalisée par Repucom, During each race a tracker is available spécialiste du sport et du sponsoring, online. It is possible to follow each boat Mieux encore, l’étude révèle que 3.3 and skipper in real time. It was visited 8 millions de personnes pratiquent la almost 11 million times during 2015 voile et 12 millions sont intéressées par la pratique de la voile VIRTUAL REGATTA 28 285 Players from media all over the world MEDIAS coverage An online game where people can take part 100 journalists present at the start in a virtual race alongside the real skippers, 1942 articles online all from their own home.