The founder of the Yachting Belarus community, Sergey Leshchev, won the Yachtsman of the Year 2016 award.

You can close your favorite book, yawn, smile, throw on a jumpsuit made of waterproof material, and look at the waves breaking the horizon when you are several kilometers below sea level. Life is huge. You can't inhale it, feel it, or absorb it with your skin, sitting at home and thoughtfully flipping through beautiful faces and lost souls of random people on the monitor. Life is not worth the restrictions. When there is nothing more to lose, fearlessness comes. When the tears end, the smiles begin. Sometimes it's worth just trying to turn the whole world upside down.