The ISAF Rolex World Sailor of the Year Award is the most prestigious award in the sport of sailing and has been presented annually since 1994.

Anyone can nominate a sailor and nominees may represent any discipline of the sport, from dinghy sailors to offshore sailors, windsurfers or speed sailors and their achievements may be as diverse as round the world record breaking passages, a series of regatta wins or triumph agains the odds.

Please use the links below for details of how to nominate a sailor.

Nominations are now invited for the ISAF Rolex World Sailor of the Year Awards 2007 – the most prestigious award of recognition in the sport of sailing. Since the inaugural presentation in 1994, an exceptional list of the world's top sailors have been nominated for the awards.

Numerous success stories have already been witnessed since the start of the nomination period on 1 September 2006 and with less than two months remaining until the close of nominations on 1 September 2007 there will no doubt be many more achievements which merit nomination.

Anyone can nominate a sailor and all nominations must be submitted on the official nomination form which is available on the ISAF website via the following link.

The accomplishments of the sailors who are nominated every year are an inspiration but ultimately there can only be two winners – a female and a male World Sailor of the Year.

Sailors nominated may represent any discipline of the sport of sailing, from dinghies to offshore, windsurfing to speed sailing and their achievements may be as diverse as round the world record breaking passages, a series of regatta wins or triumph against the odds, but must meet the criteria of 'outstanding achievement during the period 1 September 2006 through to 31 August 2007'.

A shortlist will be decided from all of the nominations received by the deadline and those sailors will go on to become the ISAF Rolex World Sailor of the Year 2007 Nominees. The ISAF Member National Authorities will be then vote for those sailors who they believe merit the awards but the winners will not be announced until the night of the awards presentation on Tuesday 6 November in Estoril, Portugal.

The winners will be presented with the unique marble and silver trophy, depicting the globe crowned with five silver spinnakers representing the continents and a Rolex timepiece.