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Airwaves Job Board & Career Center: Not Just for Coaching Jobs Anymore

Sail1Design pleased to offer the sailing community our popular sailing job board, rich with summer, and full-time coaching opportunities. In our 10 years of business, however, our job board has […]

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Club Profile: Housatonic Boat Club

News Flash: The Houstonic Boat Club is hiring a Sailing Director, & Sailing Instructor Positions! HBC, THE OLDEST ACTIVE YACHT CLUB IN THE STATE On January of 1887 seven Stratford men, […]

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Club Profile: Community Sailing of Colorado

By Airwaves Senior writer Taylor Penwell An Interview with Executive Director Brandon Kass What is the Community Sailing of Colorado? We are a nonprofit organization committed to make sailing accessible […]

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Sail1Design's Marketplace: A Resource for Sailors for 10 Years. Get your Holiday Gift!

As a gift tot the entire sailing community, we are offering free ads at ALL levels for the holiday season! Use the coupon “getitsold” and your ad, no matter how […]

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One Design News: Sonar North Americans heads to Noroton Yacht Club

December 11, 2017 (Darien, CT). The International Sonar Class Association and Noroton Yacht Club are pleased to announce that the 2018 Sonar North American Championship will be held at Noroton […]

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Norfolk Yacht & Country Club is Hiring!

News Flash: Norfolk Yacht & Country Club is hiring all levels of it’s 2018 Summer Staff!! After successfully helping host the 2017 Optimist US National Championship, the Norfolk Yacht and Country […]

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Honing Your Mental Game

S1D is pleased to welcome our newest sponsor and team member: Reaching Ahead Counseling & Mental Performance Honing Your Mental Game—Sailing is a unique sport with many facets. Success comes […]

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Calling all Cars, One-Design ABP: Missing i420 Trophy. Can You Help?

From Yale Sailing Coach Bill Healy: I’m trying to find the original US I420 perpetual national championship trophy. I have a not so great photo of it attached here. It’s […]

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Carolina Yacht Club (North Carolina) is Hiring!

The Carolina Yacht Club, in Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina, is now accepting applications for a full-time Waterfront Director. This full-time, year round benefit position has overall responsibility as a Director […]

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Barrington Yacht Club is Hiring!

Located on the beautiful Barrington river in Barrington RI, the BYC offers yachting facilities that are among the finest on Narragansett Bay. Barrington Yacht club is hiring a Head Instructor […]

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Hudson River Community Sailing is Hiring!

Founded in 2007 to serve the urban community, Hudson River Community Sailingpartners with public schools to offer credit-bearing academic programs, internships, mentoring, and college readiness. Our youth development platform uses sailing, […]

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Wanna Match Race? The New America's Cup AC75 Concept Revealed

Taken from  Emirates Team New Zealand An exciting new era in America’s Cup racing has been unveiled today as the concept for the AC75, the class of boat to be […]

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J/121

The new J/121 (pronounced 1-2-1) is a 40’ offshore speedster that can be day raced or distance sailed by just 5 or fewer crew…. the best short-handed J ever…. capable […]

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2017 South Carolina Yacht Club Opti Team Race Report & Results

13 November 2017 -Six teams representing American, Annapolis, Fishing Bay, Florida, Royal Canadian, and South Carolina Yacht Clubs gathered this past weekend to compete for the Optimist Pram Team Invitational […]

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ICSA News: #4 Hobart and William Smith wins the War, #1 Yale wins the Urn, #10 MIT wins the Schell and #3 Charleston wins the SAISA Fall Coed

The War Memorial regatta serves as the conference championship for the Mid Atlantic Intercollegiate Sailing Association (MAISA). This iteration of the historic event was held on Seneca Lake, home to […]

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Club Profile: Buzzard's Sailing School

NewsFlash: The Buzzards Sailing School is Hiring a Sailing Program Director and a Race Team Coach! Sailing: Learn it. Do it. Love it!  The Buzzards Sailing School, Inc. (BSS) is […]

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Club Profile: The Lake George Club, 2017

NewsFlash: The Lake George Club has an opening this summer for a Waterfront Director/Head Sailing Instructor The Lake George Club was formally organized and received its certificate of incorporation on November […]

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2017 J/24 East Coast Championship Report & Results

It was another fantastic Fall weekend of racing in Annapolis for the 39th J-24 ECC & J/22 Mid Atlantics. Twenty-four J/24 teams raced Friday through Sunday, joined by twenty-five J/22 […]

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ICSA News: #12 George Washington wins the Mid Atlantic; #3 Charleston win the Hoyt and #2 Coast Guard win Mrs. Hurst

#12 George Washington University won the MAISA Women’s Fall Dinghy Championship, hosted by SUNY Maritime College. The regatta, on the shores of the East River, was dictated by the breeze, […]

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Stanford Alums Capture 2017 Hinman Team Racing Trophy

Report from US Sailing, photos by Matt Cohen OYSTER BAY, N.Y. (October 22, 2017) – This weekend’s 2017 U.S. Team Racing Championship for the George R. Hinman Trophy featured a “who’s who” […]

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