Image Credits

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FleetEdge country pages feature a single hero image at the top of each country profile. Where possible, those images are sourced directly from the national sailing federation or from the media operation of a major event held in that country, used with permission and with a visible credit line on the hero itself. Where no federation or event grant is available, FleetEdge licenses an appropriate editorial image from a commercial stock archive.

This page exists to give every photographer, federation, and event media operation a single, durable home for their attribution. Each credit is also shown in full on the page where the image appears. If you are a rights holder and would like a credit line corrected, expanded, or removed, please contact SailrScience and we will respond within one week.

Credits

Listed in the order each image was acquired. Each credit gives the country, the photographer, the source provider, the license, the date the grant was acquired, and a link to the original file where applicable.

Austria

Hero image: Traunsee GC32 catamaran racing on Traunsee lake, Gmunden, Upper Austria.
Photographer: Harald Deischinger.
Source: Wikimedia Commons (originally uploaded to Flickr).
License: CC BY 2.0 (Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic).
Acquired: 2026-04-09.
Credit line: Photo: Harald Deischinger (CC BY 2.0)

France

Hero image: Solitaire du Figaro 2012 fleet en route to the prologue start, Trieux estuary, Brittany. Phare de la Croix lighthouse visible.
Photographer: Barbetorte.
Source: Wikimedia Commons.
License: CC BY-SA 3.0 (Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported).
Acquired: 2026-04-09.
Credit line: Photo: Barbetorte / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Brazil

Hero image: Aerial of the 50th Semana Internacional de Vela de Ilhabela (SIVI), Canal de Ilhabela, São Paulo — fleet with the Brazilian Navy tall ship Cisne Branco and the Serra do Mar mountains.
Photographer: Ronald Kraag, on assignment for Marinha do Brasil (Brazilian Navy public affairs).
Source: Wikimedia Commons.
License: CC BY-SA 2.0 (Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic).
Acquired: 2026-04-17.
Credit line: Photo: Ronald Kraag / Marinha do Brasil (CC BY-SA 2.0)

Germany

Hero image: Keelboat regatta at Kieler Woche 2003, off Laboe at the mouth of the Kiel Fjord — Baltic-coast keelboats in competitive fleet action.
Photographer: RThiele.
Source: Wikimedia Commons.
License: CC BY-SA 3.0 (Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported), and older Creative Commons versions, and GFDL 1.2+.
Acquired: 2026-04-17.
Credit line: Photo: RThiele / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Rolex Middle Sea Race

Hero image: Crew member on watch aboard a racing yacht during the 2014 Rolex Middle Sea Race start in Malta's Grand Harbour, Valletta.
Photographer: Nsm Photography.
Source: Wikimedia Commons.
License: CC BY 3.0 (Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported).
Acquired: 2026-04-17.
Credit line: Photo: Nsm Photography (CC BY 3.0)

Additional country credits will be added as imagery is sourced. Remaining countries — Switzerland, Norway, Croatia, Netherlands, Spain, Turkey, and Ireland — await grants from national sailing federations or event media operations (Turkish Sailing Federation for Bodrum Cup, Royal Netherlands Yacht Club for North Sea Regatta, Real Club Náutico de Palma for Copa del Rey Mapfre, Irish Sailing for Volvo Dún Laoghaire, etc.).

Use of licensed imagery

FleetEdge uses externally sourced photography under each image's license terms. License constraints — photographer attribution, sponsor-visibility conditions, time-bounded grants, and similar — are recorded with each image and honored. Imagery supplied by strategic partners is noted as such on the Partners page, and follows the relevant partnership terms rather than the public-license terms above.

Acknowledgements

SailrScience is grateful to the national sailing federations and event media operations who have supported FleetEdge by granting permission to use their photography. Offshore racing is a small community, and the willingness of federation media teams to share their work makes it possible to represent each country with authentic imagery rather than generic stock.