Jensen Beach, FL- After a 3-day regatta and 8 total races sailed in this 100-boat fleet (which was divided into Gold/Silver Fleets after qualifying races), the talented team of Cordelia Burn and Sarah Moeder emerged victorious. Their key to success was an impressive consistency, with just one race out of the top 10. Full results HERE
29ers and i420s Contest Midwinters Champs at Skiff Gen 5
Miami, FL, USA – 2/16/2021
Both the 29er and i420 classes gathered on Biscayne Bay this weekend to contest Midwinters East Championships in conjunction with the Skiff Generation Grand Prix. The US Sailing Center was buzzing with young, talented sailors, incredible coaching, and an enthusiasm for the future of skiff sailing in America.
Likely the most remarkable part of the weekend was the teamwork between title-sponsor Kolter, parents, volunteers, and sailors to come together and create an epic weekend of sailing as the rest of the country was plagued by inclement weather. Many teams escaped the snow to come to Miami and compete for these championships in near perfect conditions.
Headlined by coaching support from Olympic Gold Medalist Anna Tunnicliffe Tobias provided by ODP, the 29er fleet was 20-deep and saw extremely tight racing throughout the regatta. Perhaps the best parts of the weekend were the post-race debriefs which allowed a collaborative platform for the many young sailors to grow their skills.
The 29er fleet came down to the final race as Clark Morris and Noah Zittrer were tied with brothers Jordan and Grant Janov. The pair jostled at the start and the Janovs took control early, but it was Morris and Zittrer who sailed an incredible first run to take the lead and hold on until the finish. SG4 winners Griffin Gigliotti and Jack Welburn came in a close third.
In the i420 fleet, Thomas Sitzmann and Luke Woodworth won eight out of ten races to take a commanding win. Closest behind were Griggs and Emery Diemar, followed by Thomas Hall and Liam O’Keefe. For full results click HERE.
This event also served as part of the US qualifying series for the 2021 i420 Worlds, to be held at Yacht Club Sanremo in Italy. This year’s Midwinters was the final chance for teams to score points in hopes of representing their country overseas this summer. Official qualification standings will be released soon.
The i420 top women’s team of Samara Walshe and Lillie Foster placed sixth and also with the Sailing Performance Training (SPT) Award. The SPT award was given in both fleets to teams demonstrating excellence in their preparation and training attitudes: these sailors embrace process oriented goals and are dedicated to their craft. In the 29er fleet, Sophie Fisher and Steven Hardee won the same award. It is the process that characterizes these events as competitors are encouraged to work together and grow as a team.
The Skiff Generation Grand Prix continues March 20-21 with its sixth installment.
Results: https://theclubspot.com/regatta/iqb0uDDVtH/results
The Lake George Club, located on Lake George, NY is looking for a Head Instructor for the 2021 season. For more information, our job ad, and to apply please CLICK HERE.
The Lake George Club was formally organized and received its certificate of incorporation on November 16, 1908. Nine months later a clubhouse had been built and docks, tennis courts and a nine hole golf course were in place.
The Club opened its doors on August 14th, 1909 with its first and only Superintendent, Mr. Emil Strand and his bride, to welcome the members. Mr. Strand served the members for fifty-four years until he retired in 1963. Each spring he grew the white petunias which graced the Clubhouse. We keep this tradition as a tribute to his long and dedicated service.
The purpose of the Club as outlined in a meeting in 1908 was to provide a place where residents and visitors might meet and have the opportunities for mutual pleasure, to hold regattas and other aquatic sports, to provide a golf course, tennis courts and facilities for other games and make arrangements for dramatic and musical entertainment.
These things were all done, but changes have taken place over the years. The original regattas were motor boat races. Ever faster and more sophisticated boats were built and raced, leading at last to George Reis’ El Lagarto which won the Gold Cup in 1933 and defended the Cup in 1934 and 1935 at the Lake George Club. That was the last Club sponsored motorboat regatta.
Golf was played on a nine-hole course laid out on Club property and property to the north leased from the Marion House. The course ran parallel to and on both sides of the Bolton Road. The Marion House was torn down in 1939 and the land subdivided, but the golf course continued in operation through 1942 when the lease expired.
The original three clay tennis courts served the members for 75 years. For thirty-three of those years, 1916-1949, the Tennis Chair was Miss Helen Simpson, a devoted member who was also a director for twenty-eight years and Vice President for five years. In 1983-84, after ten years of discussion, three new courts were added and the old courts resurfaced. We continue to have some of the finest courts in the area.
Sailing was introduced in 1935 with boats from all over the lake invited to join the eight Club boats; Dr E.F.W. Alexandersons Nordic, Mr. W.M. Bowdens Highland Fling, three Stars and three Cape Cod Knockabouts. The Stars began racing as a separate class in 1936 followed by the Cape Cods in 1937 and the Sound Interclubs in the late thirties. Mr. Harold Pitcairn, who was Commodore from 1940 to 1953, provided his own fleet of two boats in each class sailed by himself and his eight children. Sailboat racing was suspended from 1943 through 1945. New classes were introduced after the war: the Rainbows in 1963, the J-24’s in 1980 and the J-22’s in 1991. The sailing story would not be complete without the mention of Ralph and Mary Derby, Boom Boom and Can Can, who were in charge of the starting guns and signal flags on the race committee boat for over 25 years.
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During World War II, the membership dropped from 125 to 64. The Club was closed for the 1943 season. A small group headed by C. Everett Bacon, president from 1933-1945, and Hubert Brown, 1946-1947, rallied support and contributions to keep things going. In 1955, the emphasis shifted from the older generation to the baby-boomers.
Tennis, sailing and swimming instructors were hired in 1955 and junior tennis and sailing programs were started. The juniors competed in Turnabouts, Cape Cods and Lasers for the next 25 years. Contributions from the members have permitted the Club to fund three newer fleets: the 420’s in 1979, the Optimist Dinghies in 1990, and the FJ’s in 1994. The children of the baby-boomers are now active participants in our junior programs.
The club presently has 300 regular members and a waiting list of prospective members. The House Committee and staff have revitalized our Social program. Sailing and tennis are actively pursued on all levels.The Junior Sailing program is a focus of the Club. Juniors grow up sailing, swimming and playing tennis, building long lasting relationships. Their parents and parents did as well. There is a great sense of community and family here! Learn more about the Junior Sailing Program here: http://www.thelakegeorgeclub.com/Summer-Sports/sailing.html
Treasure Island Sailing Center is a non-profit community sailing center and is seeking enthusiastic, hard-working, and passionate sailing instructors for our 2021 Sailing Summer Camp. Instructors should be able to instruct and be interested in working with youth of varying skill levels and backgrounds. To learn more and to apply, please see our Job Ad HERE.
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TIDE is a student-led (The Inclusivity, Diversity and Equity) Committee, created to diagnose inclusivity-related issues in College Sailing.
In May of 2020, as movements were being started and conversations were being had surrounding racial justice across the United States, a group of sailors from schools across NEISA started a conversation within the world of College Sailing about a fact that is often seen as taboo to discuss within our community; that of the lack of diversity in our sport. While clearly there are certain exclusionary factors that are far out of the control of us as sailors, such as proximity to navigable water and high travel fees and costs surrounding higher-level racing, it became apparent to them that there are plenty of ways that we as sailors can expand access to our community to a more diverse audience and things we can do to create a more inclusive environment to people that often would feel excluded from our incredibly tight-knit community. They saw College Sailing as the perfect environment to introduce people to the sport given its accessibility on campuses that have sailing teams and lower costs to sail, so they decided to create an entity within College Sailing to tackle these issues.
This idea ultimately ended up becoming a student-led organization called the TIDE (The Inclusivity, Diversity and Equity) Committee, created in order to diagnose inclusivity-related issues within College Sailing, educate teammates and coaches on unaddressed issues surrounding our community, and most importantly, open the discussion about issues that have historically been taboo to talk about within the community in order to broaden the dialogue to include all sailors- regardless of what part of the sport one is a member of or what one’s background is. TIDE has seen incredible success in the world of College Sailing; starting out with only 9 teams 
from College Sailing’s Northeast district in May and now having representation from 35 teams in NEISA alone and growing chapters in all districts.
They have made concrete change, as well; passing an diversity and inclusion clause in NEISA that legitimized TIDE as an entity within College Sailing and required representation from teams and completion of meaningful, inclusion-based education that is specific to the sailing community for college teams and coaches and making plans to work with community sailing programs after COVID restrictions are lifted in order to build pathways from lower-budget sailing into College Sailing that had previously not existed. As an organization that was created by students to serve students, NEISA’s TIDE not only provided the framework for the rest of College Sailing to implement the same strategy but set an example for the rest of the sailing community as a grassroots, inclusivity-driven organization run by the competitors. In doing so, they can provide far more effective educational resources for college sailors than a corporate diversity education program could as they better understand the incredibly complicated dynamics of our sport. This sailing-specific, intuitive diversity and inclusivity education curriculum is the first program of its kind specifically geared towards the intricacies of the sailing community and has received praise across College Sailing for its tangibility, relatability and simplicity.
However, just TIDE alone is not enough to level the playing field of College Sailing. While efforts within College Sailing are important, the fact remains that (often unintentionally) exclusionary factors such as the high cost of yacht club membership and competitive junior sailing race team programs as well as connections needed to find crewing spots on keelboats or competitive coaching clearly provide enormous competitive advantages to sailors that were born into the sport or had the money to pursue it fully as a junior sailor. Because of this, it falls on the sailing community as a whole to be the bringers of change, and this is something that can happen on any scale in any branch of our sport.
As coaches, directors, race organizers, and competitors, we all have the potential to make a change to make our sport more inclusive in different ways. Given the broad nature of our sport, this responsibility cannot only fall on one institution or organization but rather all of us. As NEISA TIDE’s Press Outreach Coordinator Nicole Moeder explained best, “The point of TIDE is not to exclude anybody from what we’re doing but rather open our conversation to the sailing community as a whole.” The work TIDE is doing would be most effective if it plants the seed for similar initiatives across our sport. Nicole also stressed the importance of community involvement outside of College Sailing to their mission, so anybody in the sailing community is welcome to work with TIDE regardless of their affiliation with College Sailing.
While education and regulation within College Sailing is important, the actual demographics of college sailors will not become more diverse unless the sailing community as a whole follows their lead. TIDE welcomes and is actively seeking partnerships with junior sailing programs, community sailing centers, yacht clubs, governing bodies and any other organization or person within the sailing community. If you want to help with TIDE’s mission, contact information for each district can be found at TIDE contact information.
The BPYC Sailing Program’s mission is to teach kids and adults in Biddeford Pool and greater Southern Maine community the basics of boat handling, seamanship, and sportsmanship. The program strives to develop competence and confidence in a safe and fun environment. The program’s success is measured not in races won but in the legacy of a love of sailing.
Biddeford Pool Yacht Club seeks a Director of Junior Sailing, responsible for the operation and teaching of the BPYC Junior Sailing Program (JSP) in accordance with the policies and directions of the General Manager and Junior Sailing Committee. The program includes classes at several different skill levels and periodic inter-clubs, regattas, and special events. For more information and to apply, please see our job ad HERE.
High Performance Racing takes Biscayne Bay
Miami, FL 1/18/2020 – It was a phenomenal weekend of racing for the 72 athletes who competed at the Skiff Generation Grand Prix presented by Kolter. The fourth installment of this event series was highlighted by competitive racing and top-level coaching, with an emphasis on Olympic development.
As athletes in the 49erand 49erFXused this weekend’s event as a final preparation for the Miami Olympic Classes Regatta, youth athletes in the 29erclass, alongside the next generation transitioning into the49erFX thrived while sharing the race track with Olympic hopefuls and topsailors.
29er: Griffin Gigliotti and Jack Welburn pulled ahead in the final race, against Clark Morris and Noah Zittrer to take the win in the 29er fleet. Third place went to JJ Klempen and Steven Hardee of the USVI.
49erFX: Stephan Baker and Nicholas Hardy won the 49erFXracing with Youth World Champion Isabella Casaretto (29er,2019) and Jana Laurendeau in second. Stephanie Roble and Maggie Shea commanded the first two days of racing while taking the latter days off.
49er: US Olympic Selection winners Nevin Snow and Dane Wilson bested a fleet full of both veteran talent and fiesty newcomers. Barrows and Henken of the US took second while the Belausteguigoitia brothers from Mexico grabbed third place, their first podium as a team.
iQFOil: This weekend’s event expanded to include the emerging fleet iQFOil windsurfers. As part of their US Foiling Tour, sailors competed against each other to cap off a week-long training block led by legend Gonzalo Costa Hoevel and US team coaches. In the 6 race series Noah Lyons took the win, followed closely by Geronimo Nores and Alex Temko in third. The Skiff Generation Grand Prix continues February 13-15 with its fifth regatta in tandem with the 29er Midwinters East. Thanks to event sponsors Kolter, Zig Travel, iUniforms, and 49er.ca.
Results: https://theclubspot.com/regatta/z8LLjWdhtG/results
Series info: https://www.skiffgeneration.com/
Skiff Generation Grand Prix Series
More photos: @2ninerskiff on Instagram
North Sails Win Again at i420 North American Championship
1/18/2021, Coconut Grove, FL – Biscayne Bay threw it all at the i420 teams competing for the 2021 North American Championship, with conditions that ranged from a very brisk 12-22 knot first day, to a drifter second day, followed by a marginal trapping final day filled with very fluky shifts and breeze direction changes.
After the dust settled in this eight-race regatta, defending 2020 NA Champions (and brothers) Justin and Mitchell Callahan sailed a very consistent event with no result out of the top ten, and (except for a retirement in race 4 due to a rudder pin failure) pushed the eventual 2021 regatta champions Tommy Sitzmann/Luke Woodworth very hard all weekend, but in the end, Sitzmann/Woodworth sailed an impressively consistent series themselves, with no race finish out of the top 4.
For full results, go here: https://theclubspot.com/regatta/LkXLtg4osF/results
For full results, go here: https://theclubspot.com/regatta/LkXLtg4osF/results
The NYYC in Newport, RI is hiring! The Regatta and Cruising Events Coordinator is a full-time position based out the New York Yacht Club Harbour Court in scenic Newport, R.I. This role is perfect for a proactive and personable professional who enjoys working in the private club and/or sailing industry. For more information and to apply, please see your job notice HERE.
NEW YORK YACHT CLUB
The New York Yacht Club, founded in 1844, is one of the world’s leading yacht clubs. The Club was instrumental in the early days of recreational yachting and created the sport’s biggest event, the America’s Cup, a trophy 
which the Club held for 132 years. In 1988, the Club purchased Harbour Court, the former home of Commodore John Nicholas Brown, to be its waterfront facility. Over the past three decades, New York Yacht Club Harbour Court has become one of the premiere regatta destinations in North America, regularly hosting prestigious national and international championships. Our comprehensive events schedule caters to a wide range of sailing disciplines, including one-design, handicap, classics, team racing, cruising, and more. The season is anchored by signature events such as the Rolex NYYC Invitational Cup, the Annual Regatta, Queen’s Cup, Race Week at Newport presented by Rolex and the annual trio of team races, the Morgan Cup, Hinman Masters and NYYC Grandmasters.
The majestic Harbour Court clubhouse sits atop a hill overlooking Newport Harbor as well as the Club’s docks and vast lawn area. The land-side operations are as impressive as the on-the-water activities, and post-sailing social events are a must-attend for all competitors. Tented events for 500 people or more are regular occurrences, and the skill with which they are executed is unrivaled.
In addition to locally hosted events, NYYC has a vibrant Cruising Committee that executes trips around the world. From fully crewed expeditions in exotic locations to local rendezvous with private or chartered boats with member’s at the helm, the cruising opportunities are ample and cater to all cruising interests.
