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Substitutions in College Sailing, by Ken Legler

By Ken Legler, Head Sailing Coach, Tufts University In other kinds of sailboat racing substitutions of personnel is rare.  College sailing is a team sport and some limits do exist.  […]

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Stan Honey Talks About Navigating Groupama 3

By Airwaves Contributor Vince Casalaina   Here’s what Stan had to say about guiding Groupama 3 around the world in 48 days 7 hours and 44 minutes shaving two days […]

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2012 J/24 Midwinter Championship Results

  J/24 Midwinter Championship Results (Preliminary)    J/24 (28 entries)    Scoring: OneDesign   Position Name Race 1 Race 2 Race 3 Race 4 Race 5 Race 6 Race 7 Race […]

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Quinn and Dane Wilson – February’s Sail1Designers of the Month

By Martha Pitt Last month, 120 teenage sailors from around the country made their way to Long Beach, California to compete in the 2012 US Sailing ISAF Youth World Qualifiers.  […]

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Mission Bay Snipe Fleet: Serious Sailing and Serious Fun

By Vince Casalaina It’s January and that means Las Vegas time on Mission Bay in San Diego.  Fleet 495 is resurrecting a fund raiser that combines two days of racing […]

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2012 Laser Radial North American Championship Final Results

2012 Radial North Americans, February 3-5, 2012 Lauderdale Yacht Club, Fort Lauderdale, Florida Preliminary Results Overall Sailed: 6, Discards: 1, To count: 5, Entries: 32, Scoring system: Default scoring system […]

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Roger Williams University HAWKS

Attn: Bill Healy Salve = Seahawks Roger Williams = Hawks

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Roger Williams U

This whole article is very informative but slightly flawed. At RWU there is powerhouse, Max Lopez, freshman who red shirted fall semester and senior Cameron pimental. With these two active […]

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2012 ICSA SPRING TEAM RACE PRE-SEASON RANKINGS & OUTLOOK

SAIL1DESIGN ICSA TEAM RACE RANKINGS PREVIEW Martha Pitt Sponsored by Atlantis Weathergear With February now upon us, just a few weeks remain until the spring college sailing season gets underway!  […]

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Miami Olympic Classes Regatta Final Results

  Champions Crowned in Ten Olympic Classes In the lightest breezes yet over six days of sailing on Biscayne Bay, ten Olympic classes racing in US Sailing’s Rolex Miami OCR […]

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Congrats to Andrew Sayre and the Villanova Sailing Team

Andrew, Congrats to you and your teammates for your leadership in promoting awareness about the Villanova Sailing Team, and for organizing and establishing a fundraising campaign. On a trip back […]

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Don't forget UVic

No mention of UVic in NWICSA? Their team was third in A fleet at Co-ed champs last year. Incoming freshman include three members or former members of the Canadian Youth […]

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Don't forget UVic

No mention of UVic in NWICSA? Their team was third in A fleet at Co-ed champs last year. Incoming freshman include three members or former members of the Canadian Youth […]

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Margaret, Thank you!

You told our story perfectly and the added publicity for our team is huge! We have been working very hard to get where we are and to keep the ball […]

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Awesome Article

Wow! What a great article! Just checked out the website at villanovasailing.com. Seems like a great group of kids with some hidden talent and big plans ahead.

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COLLEGE SAILING SPOTLIGHT- A New Year, Old Challenges, New Successes: The Villanova Story

By Airwaves writer Margaret Boehm “From my experience over the past four years they [Villanova school administration] have fought us tooth and nail over every little thing we try to […]

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Worthy Sailing Causes 101: HCM J/24 ECC Regatta Commits to a Great Cause

  PRESS RELEASE.  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE.    December 22, 2011 The 2011 J/24 East Coast Championship is pleased to report that:  Our  infrastructure will be leveraged to aid in Japanese Tsunami […]

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MIT Sailing is Selling Dinghies & Gear

  The MIT Sailing Pavilion is selling a whole bunch of extraneous equipment.Please forward this along to community program leaders who might beinterested in picking up some sailing equipment at […]

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A Test for Sailors Headed to the Olympic and Paralympic Rolex Miami OCR

Miami, FL, USA When US Sailing’s Rolex Miami OCR returns to CoconutGrove, Fla., next week for its 23rd annual edition, top athletes from aroundthe world will be using it as […]

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Sail1Designer of the Month- January: Henry Marshall

By Elizabeth Dudley, Airwaves writer   A 7th grader at Buckingham Brown  and Nichols school in Cambridge, Massachusetts, blue fleeter Henry Marshall is the overall Opti winner for the 2011 […]

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