This year’s winner of the S1D Coach of the Year, presented by Henri-Lloyd, is Bowdoin College Head Coach Frank Pizzo. This award is determined by you, our readers. We only choose from submitted nominations!! We had MANY outstanding candidates, and this year was, by far, the most difficult year to choose.
Frank’s nomination letter included the following from a player on the Bowdoin squad: “To the Editor of Sail1Design: I saw your coach of the year competition, and I can think of no one who deserves it more than Frank Pizzo, the coach of the Bowdoin College sailing team. I have been on the team for four years, and in this time, coach Pizzo has turned the program around and built one of the strongest teams in the country. He is great both on and off the water and cares deeply about each of his players. Both the women’s and coed teams made nationals for the first time in program history last spring, and we are going again this year. Frank pushes his sailors on the water and in the gym, and has build a cohesive team whose members buy into the program above themselves.”
Frank has taken the Bowdoin Polar Bear sailing team to new heights. Qualifying for the Team Race New Englands, Womens Nationals, and COED Nationals, are just the most recent steps in a process that has seen Bowdoin climb the ladder in the very competitive NEISA sailing conference.
This award is by sailors, for sailors, and we are most pleased that our presenting sponsor, Henri-Lloyd, will present a Henri-Lloyd Jacket to Frank, along with a $500 gift card to shop at Henri-Lloyd online. If you want the best sailing clothing out there, we suggest you shop there too!!
Learn more about our Sailor of the Year award, and previous winners, here.
YALE UNIVERSITY WINS LASERPERFORMANCE TEAM RACE NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP
NEWPORT, R.I. (May 31, 2015) – Today was the third and final day of the LaserPerformance Team Race National Championship on Narragansett Bay. This event is the second of three collegiate sailing national championships co-hosted by Brown University, Salve Regina University and New York Yacht Club this spring. After three days of racing Yale University is the national champion and winner of the Walter C. Wood Trophy for the third year in a row.
The day began with completing the top eight round robin. Racing got underway around 9:30 a.m. Competitors sailed in FJs on digital N courses for the top eight and in Z420s for the final four round. The remaining 13 races were completed in the top eight round today. The conditions were cloudy with lingering rain and thunderstorms in the area. Winds started around 10-12 knots and by the end of the day a southwesterly sea breeze brought steady 15 knots with gusts around 20 knots.
The race officials kept the races going and by 1 p.m. the competitors were into the final four racing. A total of 154 races were completed in the event.
Today the teams were fighting to advance into the final four round. Due to the competitiveness of each team in this event, no one went through undefeated. Yale finished the top eight round with three losses, Boston College with two, Stanford University with four and College of Charleston with two. Then again in the final four everyone took a hit, but Yale came out on top.
“This is pretty amazing and it feels really good,” says Bill Healy, assistant coach for Yale University. “We have seniors on the team who missed qualifying for this event their freshman year and now they have gone on to win it three years in a row,” Healy says.
“We had good races against Charleston – who came out really strong – and good matches against Stanford and Boston College,” Healy says. “We wouldn’t have changed anything, the team really gelled and we had good crews on the land and the water,” he says.
This is Yale University’s third team race national championship title and Walter C. Wood Trophy win, having just won the event the last two consecutive years.
The winning team members are: Ian Barrows ’17, Graham Landy ’15, Malcolm Lamphere ’18, Clara Robertson ’17, Natalya Doris ’17, Christopher Champa ’18, Katherine Gaumond ’15, Charlotte Belling ’16 and Meredith Megarry ’17.
There were six races total in the final four and the winds had picked up to gusts around 20 knots, so a lot of teams were making substitutions and putting their heavy air crews in. Boston College went into the round strong winning their first two races, but lost their last race against Yale. Boston College finished the event in second place.
“We did pretty well today,” says Greg Wilkinson, head coach for Boston College. “It was great conditions today, we like it windy,” he says. But in the end Wilkinson applauds Yale for their win.
“The credit goes to Yale, they not only beat us in the event, but they beat us in every race we sailed against them,” Wilkinson says.
Sailing for Boston College was: William Bailey ’15, Erika Reineke ’16, Raul Rios ’16, Katherine Wysocki ’15, Elizabeth Barnard ’15, Allison Ferraris ’17, Katja Sertl ’16, Alex Palfrey ’17, Christopher Dwyer ’15 and Domenic Bove ’15.
Stanford finished the regatta in third place for the second year in a row. After sustaining losses in their first two races of the final four round they won their last race against College of Charleston.
“We were psyched to win big in our last race against Charleston to get our spot on the podium,” says John Vandemoer, head coach for Stanford. “We’re psyched to be on the podium for the second year in a row, but hope to win next time,” Vandemoer says.
“The best part of the event was how we started each morning with tough races but had solid starts to win those first races,” Vandemoer says. “Our seniors are also excited to have had the opportunity to finish on the podium for their last team race regatta in college,” he says.
“Every race was super close, there were no real blow outs,” says Vandemoer. “The top eight were really even and the top four were super even,” he says.
Sailing for Stanford was: Antoine Screve ’16, Hans Henken ’15, Kieran Chung ’15, Haley Kirk ’15, John Cannistraro ’17, Samantha Steele ’16, Daniel Ron ’17 and Nicolette Obel ’17.
Final Results, Top 8 (wins and losses)
1. Yale University, 21-4
2. Boston College, 19-6
3. Stanford University, 17-8*
4. College of Charleston, 17-8**
5. Georgetown University, 15-7
6. Roger Williams University, 14-8
7. St. Mary’s College of Maryland, 12-10
8. Tufts University, 9-13
* Number of races won when tied teams met (2)
** Number of races won when tied teams met (1)
To learn more about the teams competing in all of the events and to follow the racing and results visit the event website: http://2015nationals.collegesailing.org/.
YALE UNIVERSITY WINS THE SPERRY WOMEN’S NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP
NEWPORT, R.I. (May 28, 2015) – Today was the last day of racing for the Sperry Women’s National Championship on Narragansett Bay co-hosted by Brown University, Salve Regina University and the New York Yacht Club. Eighteen women’s collegiate teams raced for the Gerald C. Miller Trophy and Yale University came away with the win.
Racing began at 9:30 a.m. in temperatures right around 70 degrees under cloudy skies. Although the winds were the lightest of the event this morning, they did not disappoint for the last day of racing. The southwest breeze in the morning was around 10 knots and built to around 15+ knots by the end of the day. The course was affected by some thunderstorms near the area, but the course was pretty even for the day until the last sets when the left side became favored.
Today the divisions swapped boats again, A-division sailed in FJs and B-division sailed in Z420s. The sailors completed nine races in both divisions on windward leeward courses with 3 or 4 legs for a total of 18 races in each division for the event. The race committee was able to meet the racing deadline and completed the races just before 4:30 p.m.
Going into today’s competition Boston College, Brown University and Yale University were each only separated by one point. Dartmouth College, the defending champion trailed the top three by nine points.
The intense competition and solid conditions made for exciting racing today. Boston College led the racing until race 14 when Yale took over the lead. The two teams were always within striking distance of each other, but Yale kept the lead for the final four races of the day. Right behind Boston College was Brown University and Dartmouth College, who were never far from finishing in the top three.
The home and co-host team, Brown University took third place winning the Ann Campbell Trophy. The Brown women aimed to sail clean and execute today.
“We are psyched to be on the podium,” says John Mollicone, head coach for Brown. “We will be kicking ourselves because we had the opportunity to win the regatta, but we are happy to be third,” Mollicone says.
Despite being one of the home teams, Mollicone explains, “The last few days we felt we had some home court advantage, but with the weather and conditions today, we did not feel that.” Although Brown finished in third place overall, they did win B-division.
“We had two senior skippers win B-division and we are really happy for them,” says Mollicone.
Sailing for Brown was Megan Grapengeter-Rudnick ’17 with Lydia Whiteford ’15 and Alexandra Swanson ’16 in A-division and Johanna Kincaid ’15 with Jessica O’Dell ’16 and Kelly McGlynn ’15 with Ragna Eide ’16 in B-division.
Boston College finished in second place winning the New England Women’s Trophy. Once Yale took the lead, Boston College fought hard to gain it back, but was not able to catch them.
“It was a great day,” says Greg Wilkinson, head coach for Boston College. “We wish we could have executed better, but I think the girls realize the strength of the competition that they were up against,” Wilkinson says. In between races, Wilkinson says, “I tried to just remind the girls this is a sailboat race and there is nothing special you need to do – just do what you practiced.”
“From our team, our hats off to Yale, we gave them everything we had,” says Wilkinson.
Sailing for Boston College was Erika Reineke ’16 with Elizabeth Barnard ’15, Katja Sertl ’16 and Emily Schalka ’15 in A-division and Allyson Donahue ’17 with Emily Schalka ’15 and Madeleine Loosbrock ’17 in B-division.
The Sperry Women’s National Champions and winners of the Gerald C. Miller Trophy is Yale University. After finishing in third place yesterday, the women sailed smart and fought back to take the win today.
“Morgan [Kiss] had a string of seven top three finishes in a row and that made a big difference for us today,” says Bill Healy, assistant coach for Yale, of the A-division boat. “Morgan was in her own zone today and she and Emily did great,” Healy says.
Morgan Kiss is a senior this year and she felt especially proud of their win. “I think that it was obviously really good competition and that it was really tough sailing against all of the girls and it was a really tight fleet,” says Morgan Kiss. “I think that what we did was just focus on one race at a time and try our hardest in each one and I definitely owe it to my crew today, Emily Johnson, who kept us in the game even when we had our doubts,” Kiss says.
Another turning point for Yale today was when they switched out their B-division crew for the last set of the day to try and get more weight in the boat. “We put Claire [Huebner] in with Casey [Klingler] so that we could hang with Boston College and that saved us,” says Healy.
Sailing for Yale was Morgan Kiss ’15 with Emily Johnson ’16 and Claire Huebner ’18 in A-division and Casey Klingler ‘18 with Katherine Gaumond ’15 and Claire Huebner ’18 in B-division.
After racing, awards were presented at the Sail Newport Sailing Center hosted by Salve Regina University, for the top teams and also for the first place finishers in each division. Morgan Kiss ’15 with Emily Johnson ’16 and Claire Huebner ’18 from Yale won the Madeleine Trophy, awarded to the low-point A- division team. They finished with 96 points total, 15 points ahead of the second place pairing from Boston College.
Johanna Kincaid ’15 and Kelly McGlynn ’15 with Jessica O’Dell ’16 and Ragna Eide ’16 won the Judy Lawson Trophy, awarded to the low-point B-division team. They also finished with 96 points total and were four points ahead of the second place pairing from the U.S. Coast Guard Academy.
Full results: http://scores.collegesailing.org/s15/2015-sperry-icsa-womens-national/
Women’s Final Overall Results
1. Yale University, 223
2. Boston College, 228
3. Brown University, 234
4. Dartmouth College, 237
5. College of Charleston, 292
6. Georgetown University, 300
7. University of Vermont, 308
8. University of Rhode Island, 310
9. Stanford University, 334
10. St. Mary’s College of Maryland, 341
11. U.S. Coast Guard Academy, 348
12. Cornell University, 398
13. George Washington University, 402
14. Old Dominion University, 412
15. Eckerd College, 426
16. U.S. Naval Academy, 436
17. Bowdoin College, 444
18. University of South Florida, 487
2015 Baker High School Team Race National Championship Results
Saturday, May 23: Light winds and choppy conditions made for difficult racing on Day 1 of the 2015 Baker Championships. The race committee were busy with the tricky condition but managed to get 52 races of the 66 race round robin complete on Saturday. St.Thomas Aquinas High School leads going in to Day 2, with 8 wins.
Sunday, May 24: Day 2 dawned with cloudy skies and glassy seas. The Race Committee found a few puffs of wind early on, and ran 2 very slow races, then the wind shut off. The sailors and RC waited around (somewhat) patiently, and finally the breeze filled in from the East at 10-15 kts. This allowed the committee to finish the initial round robin, but leaving no time for a gold, silver and bronze rounds.
In an exciting three race sail-off Shorecrest Preparatory (St. Petersburg, FL) bested its cross-state rival St. Thomas Aquinas (Ft. Lauderdale, FL) 2-1. National Champions are Shorecrest Prep with St. Thomas Aquinas in second and Newport Harbor (Newport Beach, CA) in third. In fact, 3 teams ended the regatta at 8-3, tied for 3rd place: Severn School, Newport Harbor HS, and St. Georges School. Tiebreakers were left to who-beat-whom in the regular round.
Sailing for Shorecrest Preparatory School was skippers Nic Baird ’15, Patrick Shanahan ’15, Hannah Steadman ’16, and Josh Dochoda ’16; crews were Kathryn Booker ‘15, Peninah Benjamin ‘16, Kyle Dochoda ‘17, and Andreea Ranney-Pace ‘16.
On another important note, the Baker Championship Regatta qualified as a Clean Regatta, in partnership with Sailors for the Sea, Chicago Yacht Club’s first and highly successful green initiative. Through the use of reusable water bottles presented to each sailor with water stations available on the rotation and umpire boats, zero trash on water lunch containers, and an electric powered spectator boat, the CYC hosted Baker Championship Regatta is going for a Gold level certification. Chicago Yacht Club proudly embraces keeping our waters clean for future generations of sailors.
ISSA Team Race Website
Sailing for Shorecrest Preparatory School was skippers Nic Baird ’15, Patrick Shanahan ’15, Hannah Steadman ’16, and Josh Dochoda ’16; crews were Kathryn Booker ‘15, Peninah Benjamin ‘16, Kyle Dochoda ‘17, and Andreea Ranney-Pace ‘16.
On another important note, the Baker Championship Regatta qualified as a Clean Regatta, in partnership with Sailors for the Sea, Chicago Yacht Club’s first and highly successful green initiative. Through the use of reusable water bottles presented to each sailor with water stations available on the rotation and umpire boats, zero trash on water lunch containers, and an electric powered spectator boat, the CYC hosted Baker Championship Regatta is going for a Gold level certification. Chicago Yacht Club proudly embraces keeping our waters clean for future generations of sailors.
ISSA Team Race Website
ICSA 2015 Team Race Championship Preview & Prediction!
Brought to you by Dynamic Dollies, Sail1Design is pleased to present the final ICSA Team Race Rankings entry for 2015. In this coaches poll system, we rank the teams based on the format of the ICSA Team Race Nationals, to be held 29-31 May in Newport, RI! Below our rankings, cast YOUR vote for whom you think will win!!!
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2015 505 Pacific Coast Championship Results & Report
–FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE—
By Chris Love – – The West Coast contingent of the American 505 Class showed off its big guns as well as its infantry this past weekend at the Pacific Coast Championship, hosted by Santa Barbara Yacht Club May 15-17. Though the 505 is a dinghy, the boat’s technical prowess and penchant for speed apparently qualified the fleet of 17 for entry to SBYC’s yearly Santa Barbara Skiff Festival, sharing the water with slightly smaller fleets of International 14’s and 29ers.
Even in the boat park, the favorites were known to all. Perhaps the most notable this spring is Santa Cruz, Cal. skipper Mike Holt who successfully defended his world championship in South Africa in April, and his crew Rob Woelfel, who was also in the front of the boat when Holt won worlds the first time around in 2014. Howie Hamlin, who sailed with his regular crew Andy Zinn, has been the driving force of the class since the 1970’s, and has won several major trophies along the way including the 1999 505 Worlds in Quiberon, France and the 2002 JJ Giltinan Championship, known as the world’s championship of 18ft Skiff Racing. Mike Martin of San Francisco won his first world championship crewing for Hamlin in 1999, then claimed the title again as helmsman in 2009. Martin and his crew, Adam Lowry, had planned to challenge Holt at the 2015 worlds, but were unable to get there due to unforeseen shipping complications. Another San Franciscan, Ted Conrads, who finished third at the recent Worlds, arrived with fill-in crew David Kenny, an accomplished part-time 505’er. Needless to say, these teams are intimately familiar with each other.
Friday’s racing kicked off in a spirited 10-12 knots and the veterans Hamlin/Zinn got off to a quick start with two bullets. The breeze dropped throughout the afternoon, culminating in a floater for part of race three, and a tough race for both Hamlin and Holt’s boats. Martin/Lowery took the win and the lead. With expectations high for more breeze, Saturday delivered a somewhat disappointing 6-8 knot choppy race course, but it was enough for Hamlin/Zinn to get back on track with two more first place finishes and top the leaderboard going into the final day. Sunday morning didn’t look promising, but after an onshore postponement, the fleet went out for what turned out to be another two good, closely fought light air races.
Besides the roster full of sailing rock stars duking it out in the front, this regatta offered plenty of memorable moments for the entire fleet. SBYC’s deck was the perfect location for post-racing debriefs along with good beer, classic margaritas and even a stiff martini served under the guise of a “Cold Remedy,” loosening tongues and making for fun conversations between competitors. Sailors reported sightings and close calls with gray whales each day. In one instance, the local whales looked to be ducking the fleet on port tack. “In hindsight we should have lee-bowed them and lead them over to the right instead of crossing through to the left. Clearly whales are smarter than we are!” says Richard Mundell of Royal Victoria Yacht Club in British Columbia, Canada.
One boat served as the fleet’s recruiter, unexpectedly bringing on new sailor’s each day. On Friday Jeff Sharp jumped in to crew for Bob Tennant while crew Richard Mundell desperately sought some back therapy in downtown Santa Barbara. Then on Saturday and Sunday local youth sailing rock star and current 49er campaigner Dane Wilson gave 505s a try for the first time, driving for Rich (Bob had to fly home). Four people in one boat in one weekend!
When it was all said and done, it was the veterans Hamlin and Zinn who stood atop the podium with an impressive four race wins in seven total races. Next were Holt and Woelfel, edging out Martin and Lowery by a single point when factoring in the drop of their worst race. Not far behind in 4th were Kevin Taugher of Alamitos Bay, Cal. and local Don Smith, considered by the fleet to be an SBYC “founder” on account that he can remember when the current clubhouse was built, back in 1966. Their only race win came on the final race, putting the pair ahead of Ventura Yacht Club’s Ryan Cox and Garrett Baum on the tiebreaker.
Impressive distances traveled by sailors hailing from San Diego, Seattle, and even Hawaii made this a strong showing for the west coast fleet.Their ability to mix it up with the reigning world champion and have a great time doing it bodes well for the group as they look ahead to the North American Championship on the other coast, to be hosted by Severn Sailing Association in Annapolis, Maryland, September 16-20, 2015.
Event Website: http://sbycracing.org/2015-skiff-festival/
Full results: http://sbycracing.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/Skiff_Fest_2015D32.htm
Top ten:
1 Howard Hamlin, Andy Zinn, 1, 1, (7), 1, 1, 5, 2, 11
2 Mike Holt, Rob Woelfel, 3, 2, (5), 2, 3, 1, 3, 14
3 Mike Martin, Adam Lowery, 2, 3, 1, 3, 4, 2, (6),15
4 Kevin Taugher, Don Smith, 6, (7), 2, 4, 5, 4, 1, 22
5 Ryan Cox, Garrett Baum, 4, 5, 4, (6), 2, 3, 4, 22
6 Jeff Miller, Pat Diola, 5, 4, 3, 5, 6, (12), 5, 28
7 Douglas Hagan, Paul Von Grey, 7, 6, 11, 7, (18 OCS), 6, 8, 45
8 Robert Tennant, Rich Mundell, 9, (15), 12, 9, 11, 7, 7, 55
9 Pierre Jeangirard, Antoine Laussu, (14), 9, 9, 12, 12, 8, 10, 60
Coaches Locker Room: Game Plan for Summer Sailing
By Airwaves Writer Tyler Colvin
As we transition back into the junior sailing mode, many of us will be shaking off the cobwebs and cringing every time someone mentions that white four letter word that falls from the sky. It’s been a long hard winter here in the Northeast and mentally getting back in the game can be a tough time. Whether you’re coming off your college or high school spring season, or you haven’t stepped in a boat since last August, we all could use some help. Today we talk about planning; summer, session, weekly and daily plans. When utilized, they are an instructor’s best friend and help a summer go smoothly.
Summer Plan- Sitting down at the beginning of the season with the whole staff and talking about the summer is a good place to start. As a group, discussing ideas, goals, plans, what has worked, what hasn’t worked, anything you can think of, is a great way to begin this planning process. What do you want to get out of the summer? What are your personal and professional goals? How can we make this the best summer on the water possible? Answering these, and other questions, provides a foundation for how the plan can be formulated.
Splitting off into smaller groups by classes and age groups (assuming your program director/head instructor has designated who is going where) you can start to have the discussion about where you want your classes to be at the end of the summer. What do you want them to ultimately be able to do by the time they leave the yacht club? Here we are generating a general idea or set of skills that we absolutely want the kids to know.
Session Plan- This can be similar to the summer plan if your club runs an 8 week program, or it can be a smaller sub set of the summer plan if you are on any other variation of 1-4 weeks. Because many clubs have a 2-4 week session with only some of the sailors returning for a second session, it can be beneficial to establish session goals as well. How much do we think we can teach them in a 2-4 week span? Depending on the age group and ability level this can vary. How can our 2-4 week goals help achieve our full summer goals? Once we have this established we can work backwards into our weekly plans.
Weekly Plan- Weekly plans are effective when they focus around a skill set that helps to work towards the session goal. An example could be Week 1: Sailing upwind towards a destination. These weekly mini-goals will then help you structure your daily lesson plans, as well as give the kids a theme for the week so they know what to expect. Working backwards off the weekly plan, if I know that by the end of the week I need to have my advanced beginner class sailing upwind to a mark, I can plan my 4 classes out for the whole week.
Daily Plan- Breaking down your weekly plan even further, your daily plan should have an end goal or theme. With beginner Optis it could be as simple as to get everyone some tiller time, or with your intermediate class it could be to get everyone sailing around a course. Either way, the goal for the day should be a step towards your weekly plan, as well as provide a good reference for the drills you plan on using to accomplish the goal. Having a plan, or an outline of a plan, before going out on the water saves you from having to deal with 15 rowdy middle school kids with nothing for them to do. A tip with daily plans, always plan more drills than you think you have time. Having to cut something off the back end of practice because you run out of time is better than running out of ideas with 45 minutes left.
Plan, plan, plan- Making all of these outlines and plans takes time. It takes time at the beginning of the summer, the session, the week, the day. You may feel in the first couple weeks of summer that it’s useless and you know exactly what you want to do. But as soon as August rolls around and you have the phrase “Tiller towards trouble!” forever engrained in your head, you’ll be thankful for that piece of paper in your binder with a lesson plan ready to go.
As always, Coaches Corner is brought to you from the desk of Tyler Colvin. If you have any questions about topics written, or would like to see an article written, please email him at tcolvin@sail1design.com.
Club Nautique Seeks School Director
Club Nautique, one of US Sailing’s premier sail and power schools, is seeking a School Director. This is a full-time, year-around, salaried position, managing over 40 part-time and full-time US Sailing and US Powerboating professional instructors. Club Nautique has two locations on San Francisco Bay and offers the full range of US Sailing keelboat courses from Basic Keelboat through Offshore Passage Making and US Powerboating courses from Basic Powerboat Cruising through Coastal Powerboat Cruising. Learn more and apply HERE.
SINCE 1980 WE HAVE PROVIDED A UNIQUE PATHWAY INTO THE WORLD OF SAILING AND POWERBOATING WITH INSTRUCTION, A SAILBOAT AND TRAWLER CHARTER FLEET, CLUB FACILITIES AND ACTIVITIES, AND YACHT SALES. OUR MISSION IS TO HELP YOU GET ON THE WATER AND REALIZE YOUR YACHTING GOALS!
The fact that we’re not just a sailing school or rent-a-boat operation means we are committed to your long term yachting success. When you take a class at Club Nautique, rest assured our goal is to make you into the best sailor possible. After all, when you graduate, you’re going to be skippering our boats. Our courses are guaranteed exactly for that reason.
Once you’re a member of Club Nautique, we continue to meet your yachting needs, from on-going instruction to worldwide charters and maybe even boat ownership. We’re very proud of the fact that many of our members have been with us since we opened our doors back in 1980. We’re also quite proud of our members who came to us never having sailed before and with the skills learned at Club Nautique, are out cruising the world.
Perhaps you simply look forward to flying to the Caribbean with your US SAILING Bareboat Charter certification in hand and skippering a charter boat on the vacation of a lifetime. Whatever your sailing dreams, we’re here to help you realize them.
Club Nautique offers its members more yachting services than any other club in the country, all for the low price of one membership. Pay us a visit or email us to discover how we can make your yachting dreams come true. We look forward to welcoming you aboard!
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S1D Class Profile: Farr 280 vs C&C 30
In the past 5 years there has been an explosion of small high performance keelboats. Going back to the J-70, Sailing World 2012 Boat of the Year, it was clear that there was a demand for a manageable, quick, one-design boat. People wanted an update on the Mumm 30, an older class with a slowly declining ownership and an outdated design. They may have gotten what they were looking for in not one, but two designs, Sailing World 2015 Boat of the Year Farr 280 and Sail Magazine Best Boat 2015 C&C 30.
Farr 280
The brain child of the high performance Farr Yacht Design, the Farr 280 comes from a long lineage of successful one design classes like the Mumm 30 and Farr 40, both of which are still popular today. Fat and flat, she has a wide-open cockpit and a flush mount deck in the grand-prix style. Built in Dubai with an E-Glass/M-Foam core construction, she is light, quick and ready to race with an ISO-C designation for inshore buoy racing.
At 28’7” long, she has a 26’ water line, a 9’5” beam, draws 6’11” and displaces 3600lbs. To power this hull she has 550 square feet of sail with a 990 square foot asymmetrical spinnaker (flown off a fixed sprit) and a Lombardini 20-hp diesel sail drive. The rig is adjusted hydraulically (headstay, mast butt), making it easy to see and feel the effect of tightening and loosening rig tension. All the adjustments make light air sailing a pleasure, responsive and quick. Built into the foredeck is a spinnaker sock making retrieving that massive kite quick and easy. Hull design features high freeboard and a high chine that flares out into a rounded transom, getting the corners out of the water in light air and providing stability downwind in big breeze.
The Farr 280 is first and foremost a One-Design grand-prix design. It is most happy when raced around buoys with lots of its friends. At 3600lbs, it is easily trailered from event to event, keel on or off. Recently at Charleston Race Week, five Farr 280s raced in their own one-design class. Also on the docket in 2015 are the Annapolis NOOD, NYYC Annual, BIRW, and Martha’s Vineyard/Round the Island Race.
C&C 30
More known for their performance racer-cruisers, C&C Yachts decided to make a foray into the world of grand-prix one-design with their latest offering. C&C teamed up with Mark Mills to design this lightweight rocket ship. Also featuring a flush mount deck and a wide, flat hull, she is remarkably similar to the Farr. Built in the United States at US Watercraft where thousands of J/24s and J/22s have been built, a high level detail goes into each boat. She has an ISO-A designation and is ready to go offshore as quick as she goes around the buoys.
The C&C 30 comes in at 30’ long with a 28.7’ waterline, a 9.84’ beam, a 7.5’ draft and displaces 4000lbs. Upwind she has 640 square feet of sail with a 1,250 square foot spinnaker and a 12-hp Volvo sail drive. To support this enormous amount of sail area, the rig is a carbon double swept spreader from Hall Spars with split backstays led to stern winches. In light air, the backstays aren’t needed, but as the breeze picks up they help to depower the rig and keep it upright downwind. The massive kite is flown off a fixed sprit with a bobstay.
Set up to go as quickly offshore as she does around the buoys, the C&C 30 is in essence a Honey I Shrunk the TP52. Just as happy running the 330 miles from Chicago to Mackinac Island as she is rounding the cans, the C&C 30 is dual purpose racer. Getting from place to place is easy, the carbon finned keel lifts for trailering and the under hung rudder can be removed and stowed inside the boat. Recently at Charleston Race Week two C&C 30’s sailed in PHRF A, and a one-design start is planned for the NYYC 161st Annual. Below are some comparisons.
Hull/Deck design:
On paper these boats look very similar, both in renderings and deck plans. However North Sails Chris Larson, class sail developer for both boats, says the feel is significantly different. Larson commented that despite having nearly the same length, the higher freeboard and full lifelines of the C&C 30 make it feel like a big boat. In contrast, the Farr 280, with its lower free-board and partial lifelines, feels small. Advantage: Push
Sail Plan:
Despite having nearly 400 lbs on the Farr 280, the C&C 30 has a higher upwind SA/D ratio of 40.6 (Farr 280=37.5), and even more significant downwind power with a nearly 300 square foot advantage. Both classes will look to limit sails as the classes gain traction, with initial sail inventories at five for the Farr 280 and three for the C&C 30. Both feature flat-topped mains and 7/8 fractional headsails. Despite the small sample size, it would seem the C&C 30 has the speed advantage, rating a PHRF 30 compared to the Farr 280 PHRF 54. The C&C also has the option of an offshore reacher, useful for distance races. Advantage: C&C 30
Power plant:
It is refreshing to see two sport boats featuring diesel sail drives. Both boats have foreign diesels, the Farr 280 featuring an Italian and the C&C 30 Swedish. The Farr 280 has a powerful Lombardini diesel sail-drive, which may be overpowered for the boat, but no one’s ever complained about being first back to the dock. The C&C 30 features a 12hp Volvo Penta that will power the boat at a respectable 8 knots. As with all foreign engines, both will be expensive to fix and maintain, when/if they break. Advantage: Push
Rig:
Both boats feature carbon fiber rigs with swept spreaders and split backstays. Both backstays are run to winches aft of the skipper. The Farr 280 has a two-piece Southern Spars mast while the C&C 30 has a one-piece Hall Spars mast. In the Melges 32 vein, the Farr 280 two-piece rig breaks down for easy transportation. Coupled with hydraulic headstay and mast butt adjustment, the Farr brings a lot to the table. Advantage: Farr 280
Bottom Line:
These two 30’ are some of the most exciting new designs to hit the water. Production performance is trendy and both of these boats fit the bill perfectly. While they appear to be similar on paper, they are in fact completely different boats.
The Far 280 is a performance one-design racer that by all accounts, excels around the buoys. It packs up well with the carbon two-piece rig and travels easily behind an SUV or a pickup. With one-design starts popping up at seemingly every major regatta, it shouldn’t be hard to find friends to sail against.
The C&C 30 is a mini Grand-Prix in the vein of a TP-52 or a GP 42, designed to win the Block Island Race and stick around for a class start at Block Island Race Week. Initial numbers have been low, however with a half-dozen already signed up for both BIRW and the NYYC 161st Annual Regatta, it’s only a matter of time until the class reaches critical mass.
At the end of the day, both of these boats are in the $117,000-$125,000 range ready to sail. Their specs are very similar on the surface, but serve different purposes all together. Early numbers make it difficult to determine which has more traction as a class, and numbers certainly help the case for either boat. The Farr 280 will flourish where it can find its own kind to sail against. This is a boat built specifically for one-design and so far it has been more than satisfactory. The C&C 30 can survive in an area with fewer C&C 30s because of its offshore capabilities. It can do the Ft. Lauderdale to Key West feeder race, sail the buoys at KWRW and cruise back up the coast. Pick the boat that fits your regatta schedule the best.
To learn more:
Farr 280 Class Association
C&C 30 Class Association
Use of a Time and Distance Chart for Starting and Mark Roundings
By Andrew Kerr
Recently when thinking about how racers utilize time and distance, I customized a chart to use as a reference for 1 minute of sailing from either a starting line or a mark. The purpose was to help with both starting proficiency and with estimating the length of a starting line.
It also helps coordinate boat handling for either spinnaker sets or takedowns at windward and leeward marks. When taking a closer look at the chart I included feet from the mark as well as yards to help with the estimation of distance. Granted it does not take into account bad air, current or waves versus flat water as well as wind shifts, which change the distance, but what it does do is help a team evaluate how many boat lengths they are going to travel at a certain speed.
Here is an example of usage of the chart from both a starting and boat handling standpoint:
A J 24 with 5 knots of boat speed will travel 8.4 feet per second, so the team will travel a boat length in approximately 2.9 to 3 seconds in clear air and flat water. If it is estimated they are 10 boat lengths from the starting line, then they have a minimum of 30 seconds at full speed (bad air / current/ waves notwithstanding). This knowledge will help prevent a team from sailing too far away from the line and to stay closer to help gauge their final approach.
If the you run the line while timing from the race committee (RC) end to the pin at 5 knots of boat speed and finds that it took 30 seconds, then the line is approximately 10 boat lengths or 240 feet long.
Now it can be determined by compass which end is favored and to what extent as well as the magnitude of the advantage.
Additionally you can count the number of boats in your fleet and then make an informed guess on how much space will be available on the line at the start. You can determine if it is going to be crowded or if there will be good space. If the line is quite short relative to fleet size, then you may find that a port tack approach in lighter air may be harder to execute because of limited space to tack and get up to speed. If the line suggests there will be space then all approaches are equally in play.
If you find that you are 6 boat lengths from the windward mark you are going to have about 18 seconds to set the spinnaker pole and start pre feeding the spinnaker guy ( if appropriate for the conditions). If you are 10 lengths from the leeward mark you are going to have about 30 seconds to raise the genoa, store the spinnaker pole and douse the spinnaker before the rounding. The trick is to consult the chart with your boat’s length and pick out some general boat speeds that you do around the race course. Then you can crunch the numbers to find how many boat lengths per boat speed. The results can help the team make more informed decisions on time and distance both on the starting line and at mark roundings.
Good sailing, have fun and best of luck in your next race!
2015 S1D Coach of the Year Nominations Open!!
It’s that time of year again! Sail1Design seeks your nominations for the 2015 S1D Coach of the Year. We are asking for your nominations based on a coach that embodies the qualities (and more) listed in the article below. Please send a 300-word nomination to editor@sail1design.com
This is your award! The Sail1Design staff will choose the winner only from our readers nominations! Nominations will close on 01 JUNE, and the winner will be announced before the end of that month. This is a great opportunity to recognize a coach that you feel makes a difference!
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.
We invite you to share your thoughts about coaching using our forum below, and to nominate your coach for our second SAIL1DESIGN COACH OF THE YEAR. Please submit a nomination to:
editor@sail1design.com and explain in 300 words or less why your nomination deserves to be the S1D Coach of the Year.
Last years winner was Chris Dold. To read his nomination letter and learn more about him, go here:
https://www.sail1design.com/2014-coach-of-the-year/
The 2013 winner was Steven Hunt. To read his nomination letter and learn more about him, go here: https://www.sail1design.com/sh/
2015 Sail1Design Team Racing Grand Prix
Sail1Design is once again very excited to promote a few great team race events as part of our annual grand prix series. This is a big year as it’s the first without any V15 events but features the return of one of, if not the best, team races in the world.
Event # 1: Charles River Open Team Race(CRO) June 13-14, Boston, MA
This is the event that set a world record with over 50 teams back in the late 2000s. The CRO is an early summer classic. The first event on many team racer’s summer schedules. Some very dedicated volunteers at the MIT Sailing Pavilion have put in a lot of work to revive this historic event. Racing takes place right off the dock in MIT’s new fleet of Turbo FJs and Collegiate Fireflies. Highlights are different every year but usually include a great BBQ dinner at the boathouse on Saturday, leftovers Sunday morning, refreshments and heckling on the dock during the finals, and some great commentary(live from inside a catboat!). As always, MIT will provide world-class hyper efficient race management. You’re guaranteed great bang for your buck.
Help out the race organizers by registering ASAP at: http://sailing.mit.edu/calendar/events/event.php?id=c59b469d724f7919b7d35514184fdc0f
Follow the event on their facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/events/600617603377443/
Event #2 Free State Team Race(FSTR) July 18-19, Annapolis, MD
The Free State Team Race is a grassroots event put on by the dedicated sailors at Severn Sailing Association. Like the CRO, it’s based on the motto of great competitive team racing and great fun off the water. During its first year in 2014 the event filled to capacity and promises to do the same this year. Details for the FSTR are still in the works. Last year it was sailed in provided club 420s but I’m told this year Zim Sailing is working to bring down their fleet of Zim 15s, the official boat of the US Team Racing Championships(The Hinman). This event will be a great tune-up for the Hinman, hosted in the same location in Zim 15s later this fall.
You can check out last years event on Regatta Network and stay tuned for more details: http://www.regattanetwork.com/event/8607#_home
2014 Winners, Big Whoop!, Celebrate
