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2019 Lightning Youth Boat Grant Program Applications Open!

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The International Lightning Class is accepting applications for the 2019 Boat Grant Program!

The International Lightning Class will loan three competitive Lightnings to promising young sailors for the 2019 summer sailing season. The grant covers all regatta entry fees, boat insurance, some travel money and we also provide you with a competitive boat, great sails and a mentor to help get you started. You’d be provided with all you’d need to compete at the highest level! The Lightning Class Boat Grant Program provides sailors like yourselves, who maybe can’t afford to buy and campaign a competitive 3-person dinghy like the Lightning, with all they need to sail against some of the very best racers in the World!

Who should apply?

You should! You and your team must each be at least 19 years old. You should be motivated to try to take on the challenge of competing in one of the most competitive One-Design classes in the US and assemble a team to campaign in a number of highly competitive regattas around the country! You would be selected by a panel of experienced Lightning sailors based on the proposals that each team submits and through an interview process.

What do I get out of the program?

You get to augment your college sailing experience with skills that are not normally associated with college sailing. A strong emphasis on boat speed, rig tuning and sail trim, spinnakers, shifting gears, longer course tactical and strategic decision making are all part of Lightning racing. You get to travel with your team to a number of regattas all over the country. You also get to make friends with a new sphere of sailors and business professionals who might be able to help you in a broad range of ways after college.

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New for 2019: Check Out The McLaughlin Pro Race Team!!

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McLaughlin Boat Works, the premier American builder of the Optimist for over 25 years and proud sponsor of the Opti Sailor of the Year Award, is pleased to announce The McLaughlin Pro Race Team. Our intention is to foster the development of the top talent in the nation and provide the sailors, their families, and coaches with all of the resources they need to succeed on the national and international level. With over 50 years of combined experience in our sales and support team, your sailors are in the best hands.

Each year at Team trials, we select the top 5 sailors who use our boat.  Placing well in a regatta isn’t the only way to get selected. We know some sailors have good regattas and bad regattas throughout the year so if you sailor has a bad trials, don’t worry, they are probably still on our radar.  Being selected for the team has a few perks listed below.

New for 2019:

– Sail the official charter boat of 2019 Worlds and North Americans!

– International Team Riders – Come see who we have selected to represent McLaughlin at Orange Bowl. We have reached out to the top sailors from Canada, the Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, and Puerto Rico to represent our International Pro Race Team.

– We know that coaches are one of the most important driving factors behind your sailor’s success. We want to make their jobs easier, and getting them on the water in a great coach boat is one way to do that. We will extend preference of our fleet of charter Kiwi 4.8 coach boats to the coaches of Team McLaughlin sailors.

As part of this team we have several requirement that sailors are expected to abide by:

  • Agree to code of conduct, same as USNT
  • Compete with Pro Racing Team Decal when available
  • Occasional posts to various social media
  • “Thank-you” to McLaughlin as a sponsor when speaking on the podium
  • Agree to use of name and likeness to promote the McLaughlin brand

These easy requirements will give them access to some of the best support available in the boat park.

  • Use of a new Pro Racer hull, built to sailor specifications, for the full calendar year that we will deliver to most USODA Regattas.
  • Sailing Kit provided by Magic Marine
  • 50% off on Charters and truck boats as well as first option on PRO hulls when truck boats are not available.
  • Concierge boat repair and speed prep before all events, have the same guys that build your boat, go over it and bring it up to shape before each major regatta.

Want to learn more? Contact Us!!

Start The New Year With a Challenge: 31 Day Full Body Challenge

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Hard to believe New Years Day is this week! We hope you have had a great 2018 sailing season! Hopefully, you have been keeping up that sailing training all season long. Now that the off season is here it’s time to put in more strength training hours to help maximize your sailing performance. What better way to start the New Year but with a 31 Day Full Body Challenge.

This challenge is an excellent addition to your training plan. The challenge is three different moves a day that challenges your total body. You start with nine exercises for half of the 31 days then you move on to nine other exercises for the second half. It will only take you 3-15 minutes to complete the challenge each day. You can complete all the moves at one time or break it up throughout the day depending on your schedule. By the end of challenge you will see improvements in your overall strength helping you the next time you get on the water!

Get ready and start the New Year with a challenge! Check out the schedule for the 31 day full body challenge below. Also, check out our video with all the moves for the challenge. Jump start your sailing performance for 2019 and challenge yourself! Good luck and start the challenge today to help maximize your performance for the next time you get out on the water.

US Coast Guard Academy is Hiring a Full-time Offshore Coach!

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The United States Coast Guard Academy is accepting applications for the position of Offshore Sailing Coach. The U. S. Coast Guard Academy is situated on more than 100 acres of rolling hills on the west bank of the Thames River in historic New London, Connecticut.

We are looking for a highly self motivated individual with sailing and teaching/coaching

experience at the collegiate level or equivalent. Successful experience racing one-designs, PHRF and IRC level racing and offshore sailing are preferred qualifications. The individual should be able to use proven and innovative coaching methods to help us achieve our ultimate goal of a high participation, safe and result oriented varsity sailing program.

For more information and to apply, please see our Offshore Sailing Coach Job Ad !

Vineyard Haven Yacht Club is Hiring!!

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Vineyard Haven Yacht Club, located on the island of Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts is searching for a Sailing Program Director to oversee and advance our 2019 summer sailing programs. For more information and to apply, please see our job listing HERE.
Just about everything to do with the Vineyard Haven Yacht Club is not what you would imagine when you think of the word “yacht club.” No blue blazers, white trousers, or officer’s caps. Not even a clubhouse for the first twenty years of its existence. Just a crack sailing program that’s fielded three Olympic racers and captured an improbably large net tonnage of regional and national trophies going back more than seventy years – the North American Junior Championship six times between the 1930s and 1950s, for instance. The focus, from its first days on the water in 1928, has been on kids, on teaching them how to sail and race and letting them have fun along the shoreline. Its a wonderful way to grow up. You make lifelong friends.

Vineyard Haven Yacht Club was incorporated in 1928. The primary objective of the Club was and continues to be yachting with tennis, swimming and other sports and activities included as secondary objectives. The original building was owned by Charles Norton and was known as The Casino. It is on the beach at Owen Little Way in Vineyard Haven, Massachusetts. Mr. Norton owned an Inn on the corner of Main Street and Owen Little Way and leased the beach property to the Yacht Club for several years before the Yacht Club purchased the location. The Board of Governors looked for land or a building on the waterfront for a number of years. The original two-story building was condemned at the end of the 1966 season as unsafe. Tom Hale designed a one story building which opened for the 1967 season and lasted through 2008. The current two-story building opened for the 2009 season.

Sightsailing of Newport, RI is Hiring!!

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Sightsailing of Newport is the oldest, locally-owned company offering sailing cruises in Newport. We strive to give you a fun sailing experience and show you the best of Newport Harbor and Narragansett Bay! For more information and to apply for Licensed Captain and Unlicensed Day Crew positions, click HERE.

Sightsailing of Newport is a 30 year old company located on Bowen’s Wharf in Newport, Rhode Island. We offer public sails and private charters aboard three boats ranging from Starlight, an O’Day 34 which sails with 2-6 guests, Sightsailer, a custom one off which sails with up to 13 guests and Aquidneck, an 80′ schooner which can sail with a whopping total of 49. All boats offer sails ranging from 1 1/2 hour to 2 hours 4-5 times a day. 
Come sail Newport, Rhode Island and Narragansett Bay, where you’ll find some of the finest sailing in the world. We offer daily scheduled public sailing cruises, sunset sails and private sailing charters aboard three beautiful vessels. You’ll see stately seaside estates, world famous yachts and America’s Cup racers all against the stunning backdrop of a historic colonial town and picturesque, rocky shoreline.  Sailing in Newport is fantastic.

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