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Airwaves Career Center Spotlight: NEWPORT HARBOR Yacht Club – Yacht Racing Director (full-time)

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Town Class

Town class sailboats are 16 1/2 ft long (5.0 m) lap strake one-design  dories, constructed in either wood or fiberglass.  The Town Class was designed as an affordable boat for […]

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Airwaves Career Center Spotlight: Annapolis Rigging Company Seeks full-time Rigger!

Annapolis Rigging, the premiere rigging shop in the nation’s sailing capital, seeks a full-time person to come aboard. For more information and to apply, please see the full job ad […]

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Introducing SAILRECRUIT, Your One-Stop Shopping for Youth Sailing & Recruiting!

Sail1Design, after a long build process, is pleased to announce the launch of SAILRECRUIT, a targeted sailing resume submission system and educational tool for up-and-coming youth sailors who wish to […]

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S1D Marketplace Spotlight: Shields Class One Design for sale!!

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Airwaves Career Center Spotlight: Full-time Race Team Coordinator/Head Coach Position Open!

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Brown University to Cut 11 Sports… But Elevates Sailing Team to Varsity…!

News Flash: S1D Launches SAILRECRUIT, an online youth/performance sailing resume & education center for aspiring sailing student-athletes. Check it out! Last week, Stanford U. shocked the athletic world when they […]

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Sponsor News: North MNR Optimist Sails Finally Unleashed!

Portland Yacht Club, Falmouth Foreside, Maine.   15 July 2020–  Yesterday at the Portland Yacht Club Summer Optimist Regatta on a cool day with the sun peeking out of cumulus clouds every so […]

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Stanford University Cuts Varsity Sailing Program

Stanford University, whose sailing team has both been very successful on the water, and also in the news for all the wrong reasons in the last year, just announced that […]

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Newport Harbor YC is Hiring: Full-time Yacht Racing Director

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West Coast Sailing Marks 15 Years of Serving the Sailing Community

Sail1Design is pleased to recognize one of our longest partners, West Coast Sailing. On a personal note, I was coaching awhile back at the High School National Championship in Seattle, […]

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S1D/North Sails “C&I” 420 Clinic Report

Organized soon after the State of Maryland lifted boating/sailing restrictions and careful to mind all social distancing policies and procedures, the 29-31 May North Sails “C&I” 420 Clinic found some […]

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S1D Marketplace Spotlight: KIWI 16′ RIB For Sale

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Safe Boat Cleaning Tips, brought to you by Zim Sailing

By Bob Adam It is becoming increasingly optimistic that junior programming will take place this summer.  Albeit, the new normal will require significant changes and I admire all the insight […]

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Coaching at IODA Worlds: How it Reshaped Me as a Coach

By Bernat Gali Bou Lakewood Yacht Club Head Opti Coach USNT Coach ODP2 Gulf Coast Regional Coordinator ‘’It has been almost a year since I actually coached at my first […]

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News From East Coast Sailboats: The Melges 15 is Here!

After months of rumors, We can finally talk about Melges’s new boat, The Melges 15.  Melges debut’d the boat on May 19th via Facebook and the Melges newsletter. The press release came out […]

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Sachem’s Head YC Seeks Sailing Program & Waterfront Director

Sachem’s Head Yacht Club is located on the Connecticut shore of Long Island Sound, in Guilford, Connecticut. Sachem’s Head’s Junior Sailing Program is a successful sailing program with 65 sailors […]

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S1D Marketplace Spotlight: Fleet of 4 Club420’s For Sale!

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SailingAnarchy Interview with Coach of the Year John Mollicone

A few weeks ago S1D awarded our Sailing Anarchy/S1D Coach of the Year to Brown University Head Coach John Mollicone (see article below). Sailing Anarchy caught up with John and […]

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