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2019 S1D/GILL Coach of the Year Announced!

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Sail1Design has been lucky to be part of some great moments over the years, mostly when we do our job, and take part in recognizing youth, high school, college, and one-design sailors. Reading nomination letters, hearing from our community about unsung heroes, sharing in the joy of the winners…… makes the whole Sail1Design project, now 12+ years in the making, more than worth it. Thanks to GILL for sponsoring this award and being a great steward of performance sailing over the years!!
Remember, for Coach of the Year, we only choose candidates from nomination letters sent in, so we sit back, and take what we get. This year, we were faced again

Coach Jon revving up the fins.

with narrowing a deserving field. Not easy. After going back and forth, and at first considering having two winners, we settled on one. This year, the S1D/Gill Coach of the Year Award goes to Jon Faudree. Jon has engineered an amazing rags-to-riches story in college sailing as he has helped the Jacksonville University Sailing Team hit unprecedented competitive heights in his time with the team.

Jon adds his name to an incredibly impressive list. Here are our former winners:
S1D Coach of the Year Winners
2019- Jon Faudree
2018- Scott Iklé
2017- Bill Healy
2016- Bill Ward
2015- Frank Pizzo
2014- Chris Dold
2013- Steve Hunt

Here is a bit from an article that appeared in the Jacksonville University’s The Wave magazine 18 June article by Melanie Cost:
“For the first time in the program’s six-year history, the team competed this spring in all three spring National Championships: the qualifying Semi-Finals for Women’s and Co-ed, as well as the Team Race Final. Continuing the team’s string of stellar firsts, in Newport JU Sailors Alfonso Garcia Bringas ’20, Jack Gower ’20 and Daniel Ofarrill ’22 won the Co-Ed Semi-Final “A Division,” besting the likes of Stanford, Navy, Dartmouth, Brown, Tufts and Boston University. With the A Division win and a strong showing in B Division, the team reached the Co-ed Finals for the first time in program history, by beating teams including Northwestern University, University of Notre Dame and University of Michigan. JU ultimately finished 16th in the country in the Co-ed Finals.
Since its founding in 2012, the JU Sailing Team has grown from five students who learned to sail on campus to nearly 40 athletes from 12 states and 8 countries.

“My first year on campus, I wandered around looking for kids who looked like athletes, and convinced some of them to try sailing,” Coach Faudree said. “Now, thanks to our consistent high performance and a lot of time on the road recruiting, JU is attracting some of the best youth sailors in the country and internationally.”

The team’s success has been fast-paced: they have competed in six straight Co-ed National Semi-Finals and four straight Women’s National Semi-Finals. JU sailors have also come in second and fourth in the country in key individual National Championships in the past two years.

The team is a force for good both on and off the water. Coach Faudree and his sailors regularly volunteer their time to help grow the youth and high school sailing programs in Jacksonville, including at the Bolles School and the Florida Yacht Club, with future plans to help expand water sports and education opportunities for kids in other parts of Jacksonville, especially Arlington. Coach Faudree says, “One of my main goals when I arrived here was to promote sustainability, and increase the number of people focused on caring for the water and the planet. Our approach has been to grow the coolest sailing team in the country and use the team’s influence to connect people to the environment.”

Thanks to our sponsor, Gill NA, our winner will receive a special prize from GILL!!!! Jon will also receive the coolest hat on earth from Sail1Design, the S1D Race Hat!!  😉

Here are some passages from the nomination letter:

I have known Jon for almost 7 years now and I am thoroughly impressed with his ability to coach sailors of all levels and in many different situations. I met Jon at Orange Bowl several years ago while we were both coaching, we immediately clicked and became friends. I watched him coach a large group of high school aged club 420 sailors and it was clear all the kids had a great level of respect for him and genuinely wanted to listen to what he had to say before sailing and in his de-briefs afterwards. This was my first but not last opportunity to see Jon in his coaching element….

Overall, I have been coaching for almost 12 years and have been coached and seen many coaches over my years as a junior sailor and in the profession of sailing. I believe Jon encompasses what this coach of the year award is all about and I would love to see this deserving coach receive the award.

Coach Jon looking all-business here….

Congratulations Jon, and well done to the JU Sailing team!!!

2019 c420 New England Championship Results

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The Club 420 Class concluded the New England Championship this summer for 70 competing teams (but not actually in New England), at the Shelter Island Yacht Club in New York. Top ten results below after 7 races, and click HERE for full results. Congratulations to Liam O’Keefe and Libby Redmond!

Diverse and Talented Crowd Expected for Quantum Snipe Nationals

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In about 1 month when the first signal is set at the Quantum Snipe Nationals, there will be collegiate all Americans, Olympians, world champions and a Rolex Yachtsman of the year, in the fleet. The 36 registered boats are coming the the Jubilee Yacht Club in Beverly, MA for the July 18-21, 2019 event. The organizers are projecting as many as 55 boats in the fleet at first signal.

Also sailing in the fleet will be husband and wife teams, parent and child teams as well as some recent and current college sailors. Jim Grubbs, from Long Beach, California is doing a cross country road trip with his son Barrett and making Snipe Nationals one of their stops. Don’t worry Jim we won’t tell the locals you are also planning to hit up a Cubs game on your way home. Pietro Fantoni, the current SCIRA international commodore will also be sailing.

Art Rousmaniere, Paul Earl and the organizing team at JYC have been working feverishly to remove any barrier so everyone can attend. As part of this effort, we will also be hosting the esteemed “Pickle Bowl” this year during the last 2 days of Nationals. The Pickle Bowl is for sailors who want to sail in the fleet, but cannot get the time away. You are part of the Snipe Family, we want to find a way to include you.

The Snipe class is a unique mix of sailing talent, tradition and fun. In the Quantum Nationals Fleet, there will be 3rd and maybe 4th generation Snipe sailors who have learned the sport and the boat as a family tradition. Combined with a group of amazing sailors this is a great combination of “Serious Sailing, Serious Fun”.

There is still time to get registered and get here. The organizers would be thrilled if this were the biggest Snipe Event in North America this year. Come one, come all we have beeah, lobstah, oystahs, burgahs, a great club and a great sailing venue.

Have a look at the entry list and come join the party

Quantum Snipe Nationals Entry List

90th Annual Hampton Yacht Club One-Design Regatta Notice of Race!!!!

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July 13 – July 14, 2019
Hampton, Virginia

NOTICE OF RACE

  1. RULES & ANNOUNCEMENTS

1.1  The regatta will be governed by The Racing Rules of Sailing 2017-2020.

1.2  US Sailing Prescriptions to RRS 63.2 and 63.4 will not apply.

1.3  This event is designated a Clean Regatta by the Sailors for the Sea Organization, http://www.sailorsforthesea.org/, a nonprofit organization that educates and empowers boaters to protect and restore our oceans and coastal waters. Single-use plastics including water bottles will not be allowed.  HYC and the OA is committed to sustainability and limiting waste.

1.4  Spectator Boats may be available.

  1. ELIGIBILITY & ENTRY

2.1  The regatta is open to One-Design classes under 25’. Portsmouth scoring will be available for a combined fleet of registrants that do not equal a fleet of 5 boats.

2.2  Entrants are encouraged to register online through Regatta Network at http://www.regattanetwork.com or at http://www.tylerpatnaude.com/ or with a valid CBYRA entry form at time of registration.

2.3  The Entry Fee is $35 and includes one (1) ticket to the Boats and Bow Ties Gala to be held at HYC on Sat night. Additional tickets are $35

2.4  Free launch, haul, and boat/trailer storage is provided with multiple hoists available.

 

  1. SCHEDULE

3.1  The regatta will consist of multiple windward/leeward or trapezoid races for all fleets (Sonars will only compete on Saturday).

 

3.2  Friday, July 12

1200 – Optional Practice Day

1800 – 2000 Registration/Check-In Open (HYC Lounge)

 

 

3.3  Saturday, July 13

0700 – Optional Breakfast (HYC Lounge)

0800 – Late Registration/Check-In Opens (HYC Lounge)

1000 – Competitors Meeting (HYC Flagpole)

1100 – First Warning Signal

1800 – 2200 – Boats and Bow Ties Gala

 

3.4  Sunday, July 14

0700 – Optional Breakfast (HYC Lounge)

1000 – Warning Signal

Awards Ceremony and Social Immediately to follow Racing

 

** No starting sequence may begin after 1500 Sunday.

 

  1. COURSES

4.1  Multiple windward/leeward or trapezoid races will be attempted each day.

 

  1. RACING AREA

5.1 Off Hampton Flats approximately 1 nm SW of mouth of Hampton River (near mooring buoy).

 

  1. SAILING INSTRUCTIONS

6.1  Printed S.I.s will be available at Registration, and an original copy as well as any amendments will be posted on the Notice Board

6.2  Preliminary S.I.s will be posted electronically several days prior to the regatta.

6.3  Final fleets, class flags, and Order of Starts will be provided at the Skippers Meeting.

Preliminary, unofficial information may be posted at HYC and/or electronically prior to that.

 

  1. SCORING & AWARDS

7.1  RRS Appendix A Low Point Scoring will be used (one throw-out after a minimum of 6 races)

7.2  Portsmouth handicapping system will be utilized for an Open fleet.

7.3  Awards will be presented in each fleet of at least three boats paid by July 1 as well as the overall winner of the open fleet.

 

  1. BOATS AND BOW TIES GALA INFORMATION

8.1  Regatta entry includes one ticket for entry, additional tickets can be purchased online for $35 at http://www.tylerpatnaude.com/

8.2  Proceeds for the event benefit youth sailing in the Hampton Roads area through the Tyler Patnaude Foundation, a non-profit 501(C)3.

8.3  Attendees are encouraged to show your casual southern style with a bow tie, boat shoes, seersucker, sun dress, shorts or anything nautical. Enjoy great food, live music, and auction on shore.

 

  1. DISCLAIMER OF LIABILITY

Competitors participate in the regatta entirely at their own risk. See RRS 4, Decision to Race. The organizing authority will not accept any liability for material damage or personal injury or death sustained in conjunction with or prior to, during, or after the regatta.

 

  1. CONTACTS

Event Coordinator              Maxwell Plarr  (610) 417-5529        [email protected]

HYC OD Fleet Captain       Joe Buczkowski  (757) 416-9807          [email protected]

Team USA Wins St. Thomas International Optimist Team Race Championship

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Story Courtesy of Optiworld

St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands. Dialing in the right combination of scores proved the secret to success for Team USA Worlds, who won the TOTE Maritime Team Racing Championships on Thursday. The Championships are one of a trio of events sailed this week out of the St. Thomas Yacht Club (STYC) and were prefaced by the three-day TOTE Maritime Clinic and followed by the 27th International Optimist Regatta, presented by Electronic Merchant Systems (EMS) Virgin Islands, Friday through Sunday.

Fourteen teams of five sailors each participated in the TOTE Maritime Team Racing Championships. In exciting racing,

Team USA (l-r) Tommy Sitzmann, Gil Hackel, Thommie Grit, Jack Redmond, Samara Walshe

the champion title came down to a best of three contest between Team USA Worlds and the CRYC team. Team USA Worlds won the first race, CRYC the second, meaning the champion title came down to who won the third and final race. In the end, Team USA Worlds proved triumphant. It was an incredible effort as the five sailors, all highly skilled, had never raced together before as a team. Team members were Thommie Grit (Sarasota Yacht Club, Florida), Gil Hackel (Lauderdale Yacht Club, Florida), Jack Redmond (Lauderdale Yacht Club, Florida), Samara Walshe (Edgartown Yacht Club, Massachusetts) and Tommy Sitzmann (Fishing Bay Yacht Club in Deltaville, Virginia).

“We had never sailed against the other team and didn’t know how good they were. They were pretty good,” says Walshe.

“On that last race, we had a good start and were in the right combination,” says Redmond. “The key is to have an unstoppable combination of scores. We had that in the last race.”

Some 114 7- to 15-year-old sailors, in both championship and beginner fleets and representing 13 nations – Antigua, Argentina, the Bahamas, Bermuda, Canada, Chile, Ecuador, Hong Kong, Ireland, Malta, Puerto Rico, the USA and all three U.S. Virgin Islands – started the week by training in the three-day TOTE Maritime Clinic held June 10 to 12. Top local and international coaches ran the Clinic.

“I was really able to improve in my starts. That was one of the best parts of the clinic, That, and meeting lots of new people,” says 14-year-old Julia Jacobsen, representing the Royal Hong Kong Yacht Club. Jacobsen added that she and her family traveled nearly halfway around the world to St. Thomas as they felt the IOR would offer an excellent tune-up opportunity before the Optimist World Championships next month in Antigua.

The clinic ended with a Volvo Ocean-style race, where sailors completed four legs around the east end of St. Thomas.

“It was like sailing 4 separate races because each leg was scored individually,” tells 12-year-old Tanner Krygsveld, from St. Thomas, who won the event and who with Winn Majette and Alejo Di Blasi from St. John, and Milo Miller and JJ Klemplen from St. Croix, will represent the territory at the Optimist Worlds. “Local knowledge really helped.”

This is the 11th consecutive year that TOTE Maritime have sponsored both the Clinic and Team Race.

The 27th IOR/EMS gets underway Friday. The near-record 114 junior sailors are represented by both Championship and Beginner fleets. The Championship fleet is divided into age groups: White (age 10 and under), Blue (ages 11 and 12), and Red (ages 13 to 15). The race committee plans to run 10-plus races over the next three days, depending on weather. To kick-off the event, the sailors all took part in a Parade of Nations, led by a colorfully clad stilt-walking Mocko Jumbie.

“We are always happy to support events at the St. Thomas Yacht Club,” says Alani Henneman Todman, director of communications at the U.S. Virgin Islands Department of Tourism, who attended the Parade of Nations. “Sailing is a sport that builds character, strength and confidence and that helps our sailors to be the next ambassadors for our territory.”

U.S. Virgin Islands Senator, Athneil ‘Bobby’ Thomas, a strong advocate for sports in the territory, especially the many Olympic sports represented such as sailing, was also on hand for the Parade of Nations.

“This event is a dream for sports tourism. This is especially true because the IOR focuses on the youth. This means there are years of potential ahead for them to remember the excellent time they enjoyed here and return again to renew old friendships and build new ones,” says Senator Thomas.

The IOR, presented by EMS Virgin Islands, is hosted by the Virgin Islands Sailing Association (VISA) and sanctioned by the Caribbean Sailing Association (CSA).

An Awards Ceremony will take place on June 16.

Trophies will be awarded to the top five sailors in each fleet and top three overall. Additional trophies include the Peter Ives’ Perpetual Trophy, the Chuck Fuller Sportsmanship Award and the top female sailor. The Sea Star Perpetual Trophy will be inscribed with the names of the sailors on the winning team racing team. A new Perpetual Trophy, introduced in 2017, is inscribed with the overall winners from the past 26 years.

This year’s event will follow an eco-friendly theme. Sailors will be encouraged to recycle all plastic water bottles, use the reusable water bottle in the goodie bag throughout the regatta, keep all lunch bags and wrapping out of the water, pick up any trash on shore and accept drinks without straws.

The IOR is sponsored by EMS Virgin Islands, TOTE Maritime, the U.S. Virgin Islands Department of Tourism, and K3 Waterproof Gear.

For more information, call (340) 513-2234, Email: [email protected]. Or, for the Notice of Regatta, Registration Form and Results, visit the St. Thomas Yacht Club web site at www.styc.club or www.regattanetwork.com

Please also visit the International Optimist Regatta on Facebook!

ABOUT THE SPONSORS

Electronic Merchant Systems (EMS) Virgin Islands. EMS Virgin Islands offers an extensive suite of payment acceptance options through Electronic Merchant Systems, a proven leader of the industry. We work to give customers the opportunity to pay using their preferred method, including a feature rich, affordable POS system that includes EMV, Apple Pay and Google Pay.  We’re continually adding new solutions, allowing business owners to make their products or services available to the broadest audience possible. www.emsvirginislands.com (340) 513-9759.

TOTE Maritime. TOTE Maritime is a domestic ocean freight carrier headquartered in Jacksonville, Florida, that offers freight services for containerized cargo between the U.S., San Juan, Puerto Rico and U.S. Virgin Islands. TOTE is the first carrier to operate liquid natural gas (LNG) powered vessels. www.totemaritime.com

U.S. Virgin Islands Department of Tourism. The U.S. Virgin Islands are located in the Eastern Caribbean 1,100 miles southeast of Miami, Florida, USA. Each of the three major islands–St. Croix, St. Thomas and St. John–possesses a unique character of its own. Visitors can enjoy a wide range of watersports as well as immerse themselves in the territory’s rich culture by enjoying historical tours, culinary encounters, artisan fairs, parades, storytelling and other special presentations. www.visitusvi.com

Quantum Sails Powers First ClubSwan 36 for Groundbreaking Launch

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Press Release from Quantum Sails:   On Monday, June 3, 2019, Quantum Sails powered the groundbreaking ClubSwan 36 for its official launch and first round of sea trials. Quantum Sails is proud to be involved in making this boat-of-firsts fly, and in helping Nautor’s Swan disrupt the world of sailing with this new one-design class aimed at giving the amateur sailor access to extreme performance. Using Quantum’s iQ Technology® design tool, the Quantum Sails team worked closely with Nautor’s Swan and Juan-Kouyoumdjian to develop a high-performing rig and suite of sails fitting of the innovative, high-tech platform. The result of the collaboration spoke for itself as hull #01 ripped around the waters in Scarlino, Italy, with out-of-the-box sails that fit perfectly and worked harmoniously with the unique, versatile rig.

“It is an honor to be part of such an exciting program from its inception,” says Ed Reynolds, president of Quantum Sails. “Quantum Sails is all about total performance and design. Our data-driven approach to sail design and desire to continually push boundaries and make sailing more accessible fit perfectly into the Nautor’s Swan philosophy on this project. With this new ClubSwan 36, you no longer need to be an America’s Cup level sailor to experience this level of extreme performance,” continues Reynolds.

The foil-assisted ClubSwan 36 makes the fun and excitement of high-performance dinghy and keelboat racing accessible to a wide range of sailors. The innovative design boasts a flush deck, open cockpit and retractable bowsprit, chamfered bow, and transverse sliding C-foil. Above the deck, the Juan K Office designed carbon rig provides plenty of tuning opportunities while racing this innovative entry-level sports boat.

“This truly is a sailor’s rig,” says Chris Williams, Quantum design lead on the ClubSwan 36 sails. “The carbon rig is unique. It has a lot of control and it’s very light. Sailors who enjoy the technical aspects of rig tune and sail control will get a lot out of this class, especially using the Quantum setup. We used our powerful iQ Technology design tools to develop a suite of sails with unprecedented shape without sacrificing the wide range of trimming capacity required with the limited sail inventory dictated by the class rule and the target sailors who will be using them.”

In working closely with Nautor’s Swan and Juan Kouyoumdjian, Quantum Sails found in these teams the same passion and commitment to performance, design, and technology. Additionally, Quantum Sails felt an aligned belief in the importance of helping to elevate every sailor’s performance to maximize the experience and meet their challenges. Quantum looks forward to continued collaboration with Nautor’s Swan and Juan Kouyoumdjian throughout the ClubSwan 36 sea trials as well as in the future.

www.nautorswan.com   www.QuantumSails.com

Contacts
Mark Chellis
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About Quantum Sails
At Quantum, we’re connected to sailors everywhere through our love of sailing and our belief that facing every challenge head-on is infinitely rewarding. For us, that means challenging convention – especially if that’s what it takes to help our customers and the sailing industry get to new, better places. as a company and as individuals, we embrace every single challenge you bring our way as our own.

Since 1996, we have focused on providing the best-performing products in sailing. today, we’re equally relentless about delivering a higher standard of service, customer care, education, support and mentorship. it’s how we’ll continue to help sailors at all levels pursue their passions and achieve their aspirations.

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OUR COMMITMENT STARTS WITH OUR DEDICATED EMPLOYEES AT MORE THAN 50 SAIL LOFTS AROUND THE WORLD AND INCLUDES HUNDREDS MORE WORKING BEHIND THE SCENES TO DESIGN, BUILD AND SERVICE QUANTUM® SAILS.

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About Nautor’s Swan

Nautor’s Swan has more than half a century of experience in building performance sailing yachts, which are recognised the world over for the perfect combination of style, quality, performance and reliability. Exceptional sailing performance will always define any Swan and, while the more traditional Swan Yachts will retain the familiar element of cruising comfort along with their ability to compete when required, ClubSwan Yachts will be more distinct in their role and direction with the specific objective of leading the yard’s development of high-performance yachts based upon cutting-edge design principles.
More than 2,000 yachts have been built over five decades, between 36 and 131 feet, and with the latest generation of Swan yachts like the Swan 120, the Swan 65, the Swan 48 and the outstanding ClubSwan 125 and ClubSwan 36.

Jewels in the crown of the ClubSwan calendar are the Rolex Swan Cup, organised by the Yacht Club Costa Smeralda (Porto Cervo), and the Nations Trophy, dedicated to the Swan One Design yachts (ClubSwan 36, ClubSwan 50, Swan 45, ClubSwan 42).
Swan Yachts

Swan 48, Swan 54, Swan 60, Swan 65, Swan 78

Maxi Swan Yachts

Swan 98, Swan 120

ClubSwan Yachts

ClubSwan 36, ClubSwan 50, ClubSwan 125

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Nautor’s Swan photography is available for editorial use, royalty free. For access to the Nautor’s Swan photographic archive, please register at https://nautorswan.photoshelter.com/signup/signup/free then visit the Nautor’s Swan galleries http://nautorswan.photoshelter.com/gallery-list to download photos.

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Don’t Hate the Player, Change the Game: Supporting (and changing) Women’s Adult Sailing

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By Airwaves writer Pearson Potts– As dinghy team racing has lulled in recent years in the U.S., young, post-college sailors have substituted dinghies for inter-yacht club keelboat team racing. There is a circuit of roughly 30 events each year between yacht clubs in the northeast for varying levels of crews and skippers. Unfortunately, those who do not join a club to compete I have noticed often fade away in local PHRF series and keep a low profile. The problem is that these keelboats, such as Sonars and J22’s, don’t sail well withj22 the slim female crews that dominated college sailing. The incentives for crews have seemingly flipped –where crews were rewarded in college for being lighter, they are now asked to be heavier. The boats want to be sailed flat and the sails require more strength to be pulled in compared to a 420 jib. Event organizers know this and set the maximum crew weight in the NOR to allow larger sailors. As a result, teams edge as close as they can to the limit to hit the high average per crew member which are typically male. These high averages crowd out talented female sailors from ever sailing in such events.

I personally do a fair amount of yacht club team racing and match racing during the spring and summer. I find myself in the privileged position of skippering many of the events for my yacht club and commanding my own match race team. I have the difficult job of selecting crew for many of our events that requires balancing schedules, skills and availability. But the part of crew selection I hate most is evaluating strength and especially weight. Some individuals simply will never fit on a program, regardless of their skillset due to their weight. There are countless talented past All-American college crews that have no place being on a keelboat for reasons they cannot control. Instead, it is the rules of the event set by organizers that control whether women sail.

I often find myself in a difficult position having to choose between sailing with my adept college All-American girlfriend crew and sailing with someone who weighs more and is stronger. Before you criticize me for obviously breaking the cardinal rule of sailing know that she herself is no slouch with numerous awards in the international 420 and other youth sailing classes. Of course I want to sail with her, but that would put the rest of the team at a disadvantage while we try to compete against heavier, stronger teams. In the end, my crew choices are a slower boat or a pissed off girlfriend –a lose-lose situation. I used to tell her don’t hate me, hate the game, but now I tell her to change the game.

It is not only about my girlfriend or females in general though; weight is the core of the issue regardless of gender as we know is largely determined by our genetics. I enjoy sailing with my friends who happen to be a bit runty, thus I rely on competing in match race events where I can afford an extra crew member on board. I competed at the Ficker Cup in Catalina 37’s this year where the crew maximum mirrored the Congressional Cup that capped the maximum number of crew at 6 people with an average of 192 lbs. Forget females, it is not easy to find male sailors my age at that size. Come to think of it, I don’t recall a single female on any boat at the event despite it labeled as an “Open” regatta. According to the CDC, the median weight for males aged 20-29 in the U.S. is 168 –for women it is 132 lbs. The question is how can sailing adjust to accommodate such weights.

The solution to include more female sailors is in the hands of regatta organizers because they are the ones that draw up the NOR’s. In turn, the NOR controls the composition of teams to include both men and women by setting the weight maximum and crew maximum. Organizers are the ones that have the power to incentivize or mandate teams to include women. Yacht clubs could simply encourage their teams to include women, but that is like herding cats. Regatta organizers need to mandate that a proportion of a team be female to help level the playing field. They could also lower the weight limit to decrease the average weight per crew member and or increase the crew maximum. Sure the boats may not sail as well with women with typically less upper body strength, but I do believe it would create a level playing field for all genders.

Regatta organizers should also look towards the Olympics for inspiration. The Olympics has mandated the mixed classes such as the Nacra 17 and women classes including Radial, 49erFX, and Elliott 6M in 2012. Rather than organize events as “Open” classes the International Olympic Committee mandated both mens and women’s events for the ‘08 Athens games to forcibly level the playing fields for both genders.

Let’s remember though that most of us are not Olympians and instead weekend warriors staving off the 40-hour work week to compete in the yacht club team race events. A small faction of brave women at New York Yacht Club is leading the charge. Women are now required to represent a third of the team at the prestigious Morgan Cup whereas there was no requirement only a few years ago. Moreover, the new IC37 class is required to have two corinthian women on every boat. Hopefully other clubs have noticed and began to consider changes themselves.

We invite you to comment!

Zim Sailing Profile: Big News Just Released at Institutional Sailing’s Go-To Company

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NEWSFLASH! Adam Werblow to join Zim Sailing! Scroll down to learn more.

By Airwaves writer Pearson Potts

Picture this: it’s 2008, you wake up your job laid you off and it’s the height of America’s most devastating economic recession. What would a reasonable man do? Of course, one would start a business. Steve Perry, CEO of Zim Sailing, got out of bed one morning in 2008, got his coffee and then sat down to start a company at his kitchen table. Before, Steve was the master of operations at Vanguard, but disagreed with the decision to outsource its manufacturing process. His door was closed at Vanguard and he decided to create his own door with Zim Sailing. Steve quickly partnered with Zou Inter Marine in China and was born as a distributor. Steve has the entrepreneurial spirit of Henry Ford and picked himself up by the bootstraps to take the boatbuilding market by storm as Vanguard approached its downfall. Rome had fallen.

Steve was a bottom feeder during that time –he picked up any contract he could find. He built a few boats for mom and dad who wanted a cheaper alternative to the Club 420 built by Laser Performance or PS2000. Personally, I was one of Steve’s first customers. Steve attended many of the events I sailed and personally replaced any line with a single fraying thread. His attention to detail was remarkable and would ask me about the boat after sailing each day. I was just starting to blossom in the Club 420 class and had a few friends who were curious with my new boat. Most intriguing for them was the spinnaker guy hooks that were the pins at the base of the shroud chainplate. Invariably the regular guy hooks in front of the shroud would get smashed by another boat and one would have to bend them back open with pliers. The guy hooks worked fine, but he had succeeded in something else –he got noticed.

ZIM was gaining speed faster than the boats he advertised. Soon enough he finally had the breakthrough he wanted and landed two huge contracts with the Canadian Navy and Fordham University. The Canadian Navy wanted 220 boats over the course of 4 years while Fordham was replacing its fleet of 420’s. ZIM and Steve had finally moved from his kitchen table to a small 1,600 sq. foot tradesman unit to build his boats. Around this time, former employee Bob Adam, the current head of sales at Zim, joined the team to complement Steve’s operations brilliance with his sales genius. While Steve Perry is the Bill Belichick of small boat manufacturing operations, Bob has become the Tom Brady of Zim Sailing traveling the country and coming face to face with customers.

Left: Owner Steve Perry and Bob Adam (VP of Sales)

Zim needed more room to keep up with demand and by 2012 moved into a 9,000 sq. foot facility. In addition to manufacturing C420, CFJ, Byte CII, Megabyte and Zim 15, Steve established himself as a commanding distributor for Hartley and RS boats which further expanded Zim’s brand.

Fast forward to today, Bob and Steve have grown a business from their days on unemployment insurance to the largest manufacturer and distributor of small sailboats in North America. The business has 14 full-time employees with an additional 20 employees in China to build the bulk of Optimists and C420’s. In 2017, Zim shipped more than 700 boats. They occupy a 23,000 sq ft. facility with 5 trucks and 6 trailers. They recently acquired Dwyer rigging to supply masts for nearly any boat under 30 feet long. Increased market share has captured the attention of 37 dealers, summer camps, community sailing centers, high schools, colleges and yacht clubs across the nation.

Zim Sailing has maintained its position ahead of the boat manufacturing fleet by always keeping in mind the sailor they serve. They are sailors for sailors. They know that fixing sailboats and keeping kids on land takes the fun out of the sport. As a result, they have the largest stock inventory that serves as the one-stop shop Walmart for any small boat in North America. Sailors get back on the water quickly because of Zim’s same-day shipping. They also continue to carry parts for older boats. The only calls they get back from customers are recurring orders rather than warranty claims. They have taken a hit on steel and aluminum imports due to President Trump’s tariffs rather than pass the brunt the costs onto their customers. At the end of the day, Zim Sailing keeps people on the water through unparalleled customer service, product durability and exceptional reliability.

However, boat buyers are not who they used to be –and Zim knows it. Gone are the days where you buy a sailboat, join a yacht club and race it every weekend. Instead noncommittal millenials in early adulthood live in the land of Uber, AirBnB and TaskRabbit where boat ownership is not a thought. Zim has adapted and supported large community boating centers and yacht clubs who want a fleet of boats. They drive nearly 100,000 miles a year to attend events with only 25 sailors to national championships with 400. Few adults can be found in a dinghy after college save a group of lasers frostbiting. Summer camps are also poised to replace their archaic, brittle, fiberglass boats for rotomolded RS boats. Zim sailing has done its part to support sailing’s youth.

If you’re not convinced Zim is dedicated to their sailors, think about their partnerships with the US Optimist Association (USODA) and US Sailing. They support several different US Sailing events, of all levels, including National Championships, Junior Olympic Sailing Festivals, the US Sailing Leadership Forum, and the US Sailing National Sailing Programs Symposium. They are also a silver partner of USODA. Finally, they frequently donate and sponsor other events to support participation.

In recent years, the small boat building industry in North America has been a Cold War era standoff between Laser Performance and Zim Sailing. However, as warranty claims have grown under Laser Performance, Zim Sailing has taken over both eastern and western blocs of boat building in North America. Unfortunately, LP has struggled with two replaced fleets at the College of Charleston and irreparable FJ’s at the 2016 ICSA nationals in San Diego. As a result, we can only expect Zim to grow and keep youth sailors on the water.

WERBLOW TO JOIN ZIM SAILING!
BRISTOL, Rhode Island – June 6, 2019 — Zim Sailing is excited to announce that Adam Werblow is the newly appointed Director of Institutional Programs at Zim Sailing. Werblow will serve as the liaison between the dinghy manufacturer and colleges and high schools.

Adam Werblow

Zim Sailing has established itself as a leader in the marine industry since opening its doors in 2008 and steadily grown. Werblow will assist in product development as Zim continues its effort to provide the best performing boats and meet the durability demands of the institutional market.

“I am excited to join the Zim Team, I know them well. The experts Steve and Bob have assembled will ensure the best service for HS and college programs. I look forward to delivering quality products so sailors and coaches can simply focus on playing the game we love,” said Werblow.

“Our team couldn’t be happier to add Adam to our organization. Adam is one of the most respected coaches in the country, and his commitment to customer service fits perfectly into the mission of Zim Sailing.” Steve Perry, Zim Sailing Founder, and President said, “Adam will feel right at home reunited with several of his co-workers from his days at Vanguard Sailboats.”

Werblow, head coach of St Mary’s College of Maryland has been a passionate advocate for High School and College Sailing for over 30 years. Renowned as an expert on the performance, care, and maintenance of the Collegiate Dinghy; Werblow will help shape Zim Sailing’s products and services to best serve High School and College programs, coaches and sailors.

As a coach to exceptional athletes, Adam has proudly helped St. Mary’s to 15 National Championships and over 150 All-American honors—a total which he hopes to continue to grow in the coming years. Adam is a member of the Inter-Collegiate Hall of Fame.

2019 S1D/Lon Gundie High School Sailing Team of the Year Announced!

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Sail1Design is very happy to announce that Lon Gundie is our new title sponsor of the High School Team of the Year Award. This award, modeled somewhat along the lines of college sailing’s Fowle Trophy, recognizes the best overall sailing team in the country. Lon Gundie supplies the performance sailing world with incredible technical base-layer apparel, and along the way has supported youth sailing a great deal, so this is a perfect match. Check out their site and support them, you will be very happy you did!! Lon Gundie is a family of compulsive skiers, awesome sailors, and gritty cyclists who just dropped the answer to base layers.  Inspired by our quest to find high quality, cool looking base layers that perform, we created a luxe line of hand-drawn, digitally printed second skins that will revolutionize the way you think about and wear the long undie.  Our products blend the best of functional performance with modern innovation.  We are the base layer for discerning athletes, adventurers, future superstars and all around good times. Our collection is fun, exciting, smart, distinctive, flattering, and always in good humor.  It’s time to purge monochromatic drab base layers and embrace warmth, comfort, protection, breathability, cool, and the sweet smell of performance!  Lon Gundie, the “new black”.

Congratulations (again) to Point Loma High School for winning the S1D/Lon Gundie High School Sailing Team of the Year Award! From start to finish, PLHS was a dominant force in PCISA sailing, and then at the National Championship Cressy, Mallory, and Baker events. Here are just a few highlights from this team’s season:
  • Top 10 finishes in both the Radial and Full-Rig Cressy Single-handed Championships
  • 1 of 20 at the 2019 Gold Pacific Coast Championship, 60 points ahead of 2nd place.
  • 1st place, PCISA Team Race District Championship
  • 1st place, Mallory National Doublehanded Championship, 30+ points ahead of 2nd place.
  • 2nd place, Baker Team Race Championship

Other teams were close, but overall could not equal this incredible all-around performance. PLHS Sailing will receive custom Lon Gundie technical base-layer gear, and again congratulations for the 3-peat!!!

HIGH SCHOOL SAILING TEAM OF THE YEAR
Sail1Design supports high school sailing, because it is where future great one-design sailors, in may cases, are made. We are proud to present this award annually to the top high school sailing team in the country. Our panel looks at the entire season of district and national events, and of course, the Mallory and Baker National Championship results. To win this award, at a minimum, the team must qualify for both of these events. We also look for participation in the Single-handed Cressy National championship in the fall, along with results in the teams district-level events. This award is presented annually, in June, after the preceding year’s full high school sailing season. Winning team gets customized Lon Gundie technical base-layer sailing gear!!!!
AWARD WINNERS
2018-2019    -Point Loma High School
2017-2018    –Point Loma High School
2016-2017    –Point Loma High School

2015-2016    –St. George’s School

2019 Marlow Ropes College Sailor of the Year, Fowle Trophy, Hobbs Sportsmanship and All-America Team Announced

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NEWPORT, R.I. (May 31, 2019) – At an awards ceremony following racing for the Gill College Sailing Coed National Championship at Sail Newport Sailing Center at Ft. Adams, the honors for the Marlow Ropes College Sailor of the Year, Robert H. Hobbs Sportsmanship Award sponsored by US Sailing and the Leonard M. Fowle Trophy for the Best Overall Team were presented. The names of the winners will be added to the ICSA Hall of Fame display located in the Robert Crown Center at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Md.

The Everett B. Morris Trophy is awarded annually to the Marlow Ropes College Sailor of the Year for outstanding performance at the highest level of sailing in the collegiate year. The trophy is named in memory of a distinguished journalist who spent more than 30 years, as a yachting writer and editor.

This year there were three finalists for the prestigious award: Nicholas Baird (St. Petersburg, Fla.) Yale University ’19, Augie Dale (Pewaukee, Wis.) College of Charleston ’19 and Christopher Williford (Fort Lauderdale, Fla.) Dartmouth College ’19.

Although each of the sailors had an incredible year of competition, the winner, calculated by the numbers, is Nicholas Baird.

Baird had an fantastic year of racing including finishing 4th at the LaserPerformance Men’s Singlehanded National Championship, 1st in the LaserPerformance Team Race National Championship, placed second overall and in A-division at this Gill Coed Championship and won many other intersectional and team race regattas throughout the regular season.

“Nic sailed well all year,” says Bill Healy, associate head coach for Yale. “It was great to see him get this award. He’s the kind of guy who is on top of everything and leaves no stone unturned. He’s a great student academically, but also of the sport.”

In Baird’s award ceremony comments he exclaimed how much fun college sailing is and all of the good friends he has made on the water.

“Putting me in this group of finalists with Augie and Chris – they are both awesome and it felt like a toss of a coin to see who among us would win the award, ”says Baird, “they both sailed really well this year too.”

“My Dad got me into sailing and my whole life has been sailing,” says Baird, who was born in Newport, R.I. while his Dad was training for the America’s Cup in Newport, but grew up sailing in St. Petersburg, Fla.
Baird graduated from Yale this spring with a double major in political science and history and plans to sail IC37s this summer.

The Fowle Trophy honors the late Graduate Secretary of the New England District and Executive Vice President of the ICYRA/NA. Len served in both posts from their creation until his death in 1973 and his devotion to college sailing is without peer. College sailing today had its very beginnings in the organizational ability and personal drive of this one man.

This trophy is awarded to the team of the College or University with the greatest number of Fowle Trophy Points.

The points are determined using the composite results of the Women’s Singlehanded, Men’s Singlehanded, Intermediate Match Race, Women’s Dinghy Semifinals/Finals, Team Race, and Coed Dinghy Semifinals/Final Championship Regattas. Each team shall receive points toward the Fowle Trophy Award based on its finishing place in each of the events in the composite. Except that only the best finishing place in the Women’s Singlehanded and Men’s Singlehanded Championships shall be used to determine the points for each school in those events.

The winner of the Leonard M. Fowle Trophy for best overall collegiate team is Yale University, who had an impressive record especially in the spring season. View further calculations for the Fowle Trophy here on the College Sailing website.

The Robert H. Hobbs Sportsmanship Award is awarded annually to the Sportsman of the Year. The trophy honors Robert Hobbs (MIT ’64), past Executive Vice President of ICSA, past President of U.S. Sailing (1992-1994), and former chair of the U.S. Sailing Olympic Committee.

This year’s finalists were Carter Cameron (Mt. Pleasant, S.C.) College of Charleston ‘19, Liam McCarthy (St. Petersburg, Fla.), St. Mary’s College of Maryland ‘19 and Chris Williford (Fort Lauderdale, Fla.) Dartmouth College ‘19. This year’s winner is Liam McCarthy.\

“My coaches, Adam Werblow and Bill Ward, tried to teach me early on that sailing is even better when you’re having fun,” says McCarthy, “and I finally caught on.”

One of McCarthy’s fellow competitors describes him as a true sportsman and a force of positivity on his team.

The Intercollegiate Sailing Association (ICSA) also announced the 2018-19 All-American Crews, Coed Skippers and Honorable Mentions (the Women’s All-Americans were announced at the Sperry College Sailing Women’s Nationals awards ceremony). The names of the winners will be added to the ICSA Hall of Fame displayed at the Robert Crown Center at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Md.

A committee of representatives from the seven conferences in the ICSA selects the ICSA All-America Team. This year’s committee is: MAISA: Ian Burman (chair), Brian Clancy, MCSA: Geoff Pedrick, NEISA: David Thompson, Stan Schreyer, NWICSA: Scott Wilson, PCCSC: Blaine Pedlow, SAISA: Ward Cromwell, SEISA: Charles Higgins.

To select an All-American skipper, the committee evaluates a competitor based on their competitive record in inter-conference competition as well as conference and national championships. The committee analyzes how this record compares to fellow competitors, the quality of the competition the record was achieved in, and results achieved competing with different crews, the span of the record over the fall and spring seasons, and how the record compares to previous All-American winners in past years.

For All-American crew selections, the committee uses criteria similar to skipper selection, but also considers: demonstrated leadership (may consider seniority), outstanding body mechanics and boat handling skills as well as proven ability to improve the results of the skipper(s) with whom he or she sails.

The committee selects up to 18 Coed All-American skippers and additional Honorable Mentions, together totaling no more than 25 and up to 20 All-American Crews and additional Honorable Mentions together totaling not more than 30 honorees. The committee is not obligated to select the maximum number of honorees.

Here are the names of the All-American Coed Skippers, Crews and Honorable Mentions.

ICSA Honorable Mention Coed All-American Skippers:
Ragna Agerup (Oslo, Norway), Brown University ’20
Eli Burnes (Boston, Mass.), Harvard University ‘21
Conner Harding (Naples, Fla.), Roger Williams ‘19
Nicolas Hernandez (Venice, Fla.), Yale University ‘19
Andy Reiter (San Diego, Calif.), Georgetown University ‘19
Wiley Rogers (Kemah, Texas), Stanford University ‘22
Jacob Rosenberg (Huntington Beach, Calif.), Stanford University ‘20
Romain Screve (Ross, Calif.), Stanford University ‘21
Liam McCarthy (St. Petersburg, Fla.), St. Mary’s College of Maryland ‘19
Javier de Urdanibia (Barcelona, Spain), Boston University ‘21
Leo Boucher (Annapolis, Md.), St. Mary’s College of Maryland ‘22
Jack McGraw (San Diego, Calif.), Dartmouth College ‘20

ICSA Coed All-American Skippers:
Augie Dale (Pewaukee, Wis.), College of Charleston ‘19
Nicholas Baird (St. Petersburg, Fla.), Yale University ‘19
Hector Guzman (Huixquilucan, Mexico), Hobart and William Smith Colleges ‘20
Shawn Harvey (Miami, Fla.), Yale University ‘21
Joseph Hermus (Bellport, N.Y.), U.S. Naval Academy ‘22
Matthew Kaplan (Larchmont, N.Y.), Bowdoin College ‘19
Parker Loftus (Chatham, Mass.), U.S. Naval Academy ‘20
William Logue (Cos Cobb, Conn.), Georgetown University ‘20
Charles Miller (San Diego, Calif.), Hobart and William Smith Colleges ‘19
Sean Segerblom (Costa Mesa, Calif.), Georgetown University ‘20
Patrick Shanahan (St. Petersburg, Fla.), Brown University ‘19
Wade Waddell (Palm Beach Gardens, Fla.), Boston College ‘19
Christopher Williford (Fort Lauderdale, Fla.), Dartmouth College ‘19

ICSA Honorable Mention All-American Crews:
Katharine Bowman (San Diego, Calif.), Boston College ‘20
Darby Capellin (Bradenton, Fla.), University of South Florida ‘19
Emily Croteau (Winchester, Mass.), Boston University ‘19
Maxine de Havenon (East Hampton, N.Y.), Brown University ‘19
Alexandra Fayer (San Diego, Calif.), George Washington University ‘19
Claudia Loiacono (Miami, Fla.), Yale University ‘21
Diana Otis (Severna Park, Md.), Cornell University ‘19
Lexi Pline (Annapolis, Md.), Boston University ‘19
Tiffany Xi (Foster City, Calif.), Massachusetts Institute of Technology ‘19
                       
ICSA All-American Crews:
Jennifer Agell (Huntington, N.Y.), Roger Williams University ‘19
Kathryn Booker (St. Petersburg, Fla.), Stanford University ‘19
Annabel Carrington (White Stone, Va.), College of Charleston ‘19
Paige Clarke (St. John, USVI), Dartmouth College ‘20
Lena Episalla (Rock Hill, N.Y.), Harvard University ‘19
Tara Ferraris (Orient, N.Y.), Boston College ‘19
Rebecca Fung (Rye, N.Y.), Georgetown University ‘19
Lindsey Kloc (Barrington, R.I.), Hobart and William Smith Colleges ‘19
Louisa Lindgren (New York, N.Y.), Bowdoin College ‘19
Sonia Lingos-Utley (Yarmouth, Mass.), Yale University ‘21
Katherine Lounsbury (Jensen Beach, Fla.), College of Charleston ‘20
Rebecca McElvain (San Diego, Calif.), Dartmouth College ‘19
Ana Mier (San Jose, Puerto Rico), U.S. Naval Academy ‘19
Graceann Nicolosi (St. Thomas, USVI), Yale University ‘20
Emma Perry (Lexington, Mass.), Boston College ‘19
Julia Reynolds (Southport, Conn.), Brown University ‘21
Caroline Teare (St. Thomas, Virgin Islands), Georgetown University ‘21
Maya Weber (Amherst, N.Y.), Hobart and William Smith Colleges ‘20
Kira Woods (Newport Beach, Calif.), Yale University ‘19

To learn more about the teams competing in all of the events and to follow the racing and results visit the event website: https://2019nationals.collegesailing.org/

Dan Egan, of Degan Media, will provide some live coverage during the events, presenting sponsor is US Sailing and supporting sponsor of the live coverage is LaserPerformance, streaming from the event website.
Coed: June 3, release of Coed recap.

Rob Migliaccio provided photos for these events.

2019 Gill/S1D Coach of the Year Nominations Open!

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Greetings, sailing fans!!! We’re sending out our annual call this year for nominations for the prestigious Coach of the Year Award. In true grass-roots fashion, we pick the ultimate winner only from nominees supplied by you, our readers. We are thrilled also to announce that again, Gill North America is our Exclusive Sponsor for this award, and will provide the winner with a well-deserved gift! This can be a youth coach, high school coach, college coach, Olympic coach….. you name it!
2017 S1D/Gill Coach of the Year Nominations Now Open!!Sail1Design annually seeks your nominations for the Gill-S1D Coach of the Year, for a coach that embodies the qualities (and more) listed in the article below. Sailors, this is your award! The Sail1Design staff chooses the winner only from our readers nominations! This is a great opportunity to recognize a coach that you feel makes a difference!
Last years deserving winner was Hobart/WS’s Scott Ikle.

Please write a detailed nomination letter to [email protected] .  Nominations close on 15 JUNE 2018

Past S1D Coach of the Year Winners
2018- Scott Ikle
2017- Bill Healy
2016- Bill Ward
2015- Frank Pizzo
2014- Chris Dold
2013- Steve Hunt

All good coaches, regardless of their chosen sport, share some important fundamental qualities that transcend technical knowledge, or specific x’s & o’s. In other words, whether it’s a basketball, tennis, hockey, football, chess, or sailing coach, there are certain key characteristics to good coaching, and none of these really requires technical knowledge of the sport they are in.
Here are some of those characteristics: logistics, organization, energy, leadership, passion, creativity, patience, dedication, motivational skill, humility.
I would bet that you could take a good coach, put him or her in a new sport, and that coach would find some success. Think about the best coach you ever had, and visualize that person in another sport, and you might see just how that person could adapt and still be a difference-maker.
However, we all know that great coaches not only possess these core qualities, but indeed they are also masters of the subtleties, rules, and technical chess moves of the sport they are involved in. Very often, great coaches are former players themselves, and often they are good, but not necessarily great players. In any event, it seems virtually certain that actually having been in the arena at some level, having been a true game player, is a necessary ingredient for a great coach.
So then, what an important advantage sailing coaches have, since the sport allows lifelong top-level competitive opportunities. While it would be impossible for a middle-aged football coach to live, first-hand, what his players go through on the gridiron, middle-aged sailors and coaches can stay current, and can compete right alongside the world’s best sailors, and even win world championships in sailing. Opportunities exist in team racing, match racing, and all types of one-design classes offer regattas, year-round. In this manner, sailing coaches have the ability to get inside the sport, at the highest levels, learn more, and feel the same things that their players go through out on the race course. The empathy gained here is a very powerful tool that great coaches employ when coaching.
Getting into the rhythm of a sailboat race, realizing first-hand the excitement and frustrations of the sport, preparing mentally for each race, “knowing when to tack”, these are all things that coaches must be able to talk to their players about, and talking to them about these things is so much more clear and present when done by someone who is actually good at them, and has done them recently at a high level.
For example, it was always easy for me to say to a team, “make sure when you are in FJ’s at the starting line to allow yourself more leeward room to accelerate since the foils are small and the boats need to go bow down first before they start lifting.” It was really easy to say. It was quite another thing to actually do it, and to go out on the starting line, in FJ’s, and practice what I preached. That was a LOT harder, and I drew a great deal of empathy with my players from that situation and recognized better ways to talk about it and to talk them through it, having been there myself. This is especially true in team racing, where coaches can see plays easily on the coach boat or on the drawing board, but it’s one thing to talk about a mark trap at Mark 1; it’s another thing altogether to go out and be able to execute it. Without being, or having been, in the arena, sailing advice and technical coaching can be somewhat hollow compared to other sailing coaches who know it first-hand and live what they coach.
So, when you look to your coaches for advice or to get to that next level, or if you are a interested in sailing in a college program, take a moment and check out the coaches resumes, just as they will most assuredly be checking yours. The list that makes coaches good coaches should be there for sure, but see if the coaches list how, or if, they stay current in their profession and have the passion to go out on the racecourse themselves. Great coaches usually always have a story, and very recent one, of a lesson learned at a regatta they sailed in themselves. They love to sail and get better, if only to become a better sailor and coach.
While there is a short list of coaches who choose to (and can) do it all, many top collegiate programs now share these coaching qualities by hiring an assistant or co-head coach, who is very often a recent college sailing alumnus and is active in dinghy racing and brings that empathy, right away, to the team. The head coach then ties everything together with experience, maturity, management, and knowledge of the game.
If you’ve ever noticed, baseball coaches actually suit up for games even though they certainly won’t be playing. This historically comes from the old “player-coach” model, and perhaps, this connects them with the game and the player more intimately. Sailing offers the unique ability for all ages to compete at the highest levels of the sport, and great sailing coaches take advantage of this, “suiting up” themselves and making themselves better at coaching by sailing competitively.
About Gill
Gill NA, with headquarters near Atlanta, GA is the exclusive importer and distributor of Gill-brand foul weather gear in North America including Caribbean, US and Canada. Gill is a worldwide apparel and accessories brand serving the marine industry with over three decades of experience . Gill specializes in high tech, breathable waterproof clothing. The company develops and markets a variety of performance-oriented, award-winning apparel and accessories for virtually every type of boating activity with product lines that include foul weather gear; interactive layering systems; footwear; gloves; bags; junior gear; scholastic gear and team wear.

College of Charleston is the Gill Coed National Champion

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NEWPORT, R.I. (May 31, 2019) – Today was the last day of the Gill College Sailing Coed National Championship, the final of three high caliber spring college sailing national championships that were run out of host site Sail Newport Sailing Center at Fort Adams by host school Brown University with support from Dartmouth College and NEISA. It was very close racing in the harbor today in Newport, R.I. and it was not until the last beat of the last race that the College of Charleston came out on top winning the national title and the Henry A. Morss Memorial Trophy.

A wind delay this morning kept sailors onshore until enough filled in to have a 12:10 p.m. harbor start. Winds filled in from the southeast and stayed light to moderate in the afternoon. The last races of the day brought some stronger pressure and hiking conditions. There were big oscillating shifts across the racecourse challenging the sailors to stay in phase and sail fast.

Racing concluded just before 5:30 p.m. meeting the deadline to not start a race after 5 p.m. The competitors completed six races in each division today for a regatta total of 16 races in both divisions in FJs and Z420s on windward-leeward courses.

The racing could not have happened or been such a success without the race officers: regatta chairs John Mollicone (Brown) Justin Assad (Dartmouth); college sailing representative, Danielle Richards; principle race officer, John Mollicone; chief judge, Fred Hagedorn; judges, Cliff Black, Don Becker and Megan Roach.

Charleston won this regatta two years ago and they have claimed back the title today. The Henry A. Morss Memorial Trophy was donated by a group of nationally known yachtsmen as a memorial to Henry A. Morss, a Boston yachtsman and 1907 Bermuda Race winner, as well as an MIT alumnus and benefactor.

“Augie [Dale] and Katie [Lounsbury] sailed well all of the event in A-division,” says Ward Cromwell, head coach for Charleston, “which is not an easy task, but they were one of the fastest boats out there – and that was one edge we had. We also made a switch in our B-division sailors for the last set when the wind picked up a bit and we needed another edge.”

“There were challenging starts in the last races,” says Cromwell, “but we held it together. We were able to get off the line well and we had great boat speed and that’s what kept us out in front. After a tough team race regatta it was great to see the team rally and win this event.”

Sailing for Charleston is: Augie Dale ’19 with Katherine Lounsbury ’20 in A-division, Alie Toppa ’20 with Annabel Carrington ’19 and Jack Brown ’21 with Payton Alexander ’19 in B-division.

Yale University finished in second place just five points behind Charleston and won the Oxford University Trophy.

The Oxford University Trophy is awarded to the second place team in the Gill Coed Dinghy National Championship. The Oxford University Yacht Club team and its captain Jeremy Thomas presented this trophy in 1954 on the occasion of the first of a continuing series of college regattas between British and North American teams held alternately in the United States and Great Britain every two years.

“Today was about getting re-focused and getting our confidence up,” says Bill Healy, associate head coach for Yale. Yale finished yesterday in sixth place, so they made a big move up the scoreboard today.

“We had a great group of teammates who helped each other get up and rebound to get back in the racing today,” says Healy. “There were not many mistakes on the racecourse to allow any breathing room, it was tight racing for the whole event.”

Sailing for Yale is: Nicholas Baird ’19 with Sonia Lingos-Utley ’21 in A-division and Shawn Harvey ’21 with Graceann Nicolosi ’20 and Louisa Nordstrom ’20 with Claudia Loiacono ’21 in B-division.

U.S. Naval Academy finished in third place only five points behind Yale, winning the Metropolitan Sailing League Trophy, which was first presented in 1971.

“It was a tight fight this event,” says Ian Burman, head coach for Navy, “and there were a lot of teams in it, it was so close. Our B-division sailed spectacularly, it was impressive to see our skipper, Joseph Hermus, come so far. He had not been in an FJ or sailed short course races before college sailing. He worked hard and learned a lot.”

“I think the hardest part of this regatta was that the fleet was so good,” says Burman, “there are a lot of good sailors on the water and at this event the level of sailing is so high.”

Sailing for Navy is: Parker Loftus ’20 with Olivia de Olazarra ’22 and Emma Remis ’20 in A-division and Joseph Hermus ’22 with Ana Mier ’19 and Sean Linden ’21 in B-division.

The Robert Allan, Sr. and Robert Allan, Jr. Trophies are awarded to the low point “A” and “B” teams, respectively, in the Gill Coed College Sailing National Championship. Augie Dale ’19 with Katherine Lounsbury ’20 won A-division from College of Charleston with 79 points, three points ahead of second place. Joseph Hermus ’22 with Ana Mier ’19 and Sean Linden ’21 from the U.S. Naval Academy won B-division with 65 points, 33 points ahead of second place.

Gill Coed Final Results (16 races):
1. College of Charleston, 205
2. Yale University, 210
3. U.S. Naval Academy, 215
4. Hobart and William Smith Colleges, 256
5. Brown University, 260
6. Georgetown University, 261
7. St. Mary’s College of Maryland, 266
8. Stanford University, 285
9. Dartmouth College, 301
10. Boston University, 302
11. Tufts University, 311
12. U.S. Coast Guard Academy, 316
13. Old Dominion University, 339
14. Bowdoin College, 359
15. Boston College, 373
16. Jacksonville University, 377
17. Connecticut College, 391
18. University of California at Santa Barbara, 442

To learn more about the teams competing in all of the events and to follow the racing and results visit the event website: https://2019nationals.collegesailing.org/

Dan Egan, of Degan Media, will provide some live coverage during the events, presenting sponsor is US Sailing and supporting sponsor of the live coverage is LaserPerformance, streaming from the event website.
Coed: June 3, release of Coed recap.

Rob Migliaccio provided photos for these events.

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