Sport Sailing
The Geneva Nautical Society (SNG) has already been
founded in 1872. It is therefore one of the oldest in Continental
Europe. Yachting is a Sport in which Swiss have always excelled: In
various world championships, at the Olympic Games, winning
round-the-world races and other great transoceanic races and even
reaching the highest summit by winning and keeping the America's Cup. It
is also the landlocked country with most sea-going pleasure boats.