Looking for a youth boat built for speed and excitement? Maybe a pathway towards the Olympics? The Nacra 15 offers just that to youth sailors around the world. This semi-foiling catamaran is one of the six boats endorsed by the Olympic Development Program. The whole idea of the Nacra 15 is to capture youth sailors and have them continue sailing for life. This doublehanded boat requires teamwork and is making sailing fun and exciting for youth sailors all over the world.
The History
The production of the Nacra 15 began in 2015 and was designed from scratch to the ISAF criteria so it could become the official ISAF youth catamaran. The purpose was to replace the older catamarans and create a new catamaran that had a more modern design along with the ability to hold more crew weight. The Nacra 15 is a mini version of 
the Olympic Nacra 17, and thus creates a pathway towards the Olympics for youth sailors. The Nacra 15 plans on representing the future of cat sailing for youth around the world.
The Boat
The Nacra 15 is a semi-foiling catamaran which carries two curved daggerboards that provide lift. Less drag and more lift makes this boat faster and more exciting! The boat is 15.4 feet long and includes a mainsail, jib, and spinnaker. This official World Sailing youth multihull is exciting and fast but is safe for youth sailors. This boat is an excellent way for youth sailors to learn to work as a team. The Nacra 15 is one of the trainer boats in the Youth Olympic Development Program and serves as one of the pathways for youth sailors on a journey to the Olympics.
For More Information on the Nacra 15:
http://www.nacra15class.com
http://www.nacrasailing.com/project/nacra-15-pathway-for-youth-sailing/
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Stevenson School Seeks Head Sailing Coach
News Flash: Stevenson School is Hiring a Head Sailing Coach!
Stevenson is a day and boarding community in which students learn to read, write, observe, calculate, research, analyze, innovate, speak, listen, imagine, laugh, collaborate, and dare and, in the process, prepare for the challenges they will encounter in college and the world. This is also a community in which adults, inspired by a sense of shared purpose, work consciously together to model, as often as possible, a collective engagement with life that we wish our students to emulate.
Given our respect for the historic significance of athletics at Stevenson, our commitment to students’ health and well-being, and our belief that sport is a prime site for experiential learning and for establishing lasting values and lifelong relationships, we will provide our students with a structured and top-quality athletic education, through which they learn integrity and responsibility; become stronger and healthier; become more resilient and team-oriented; and develop character, humility, and grit. We will maintain an athletics program as competitive as it is principled, and develop integrated, forward-thinking, value-based solutions to the challenges we face in balancing athletics’ traditional role with new co-curricular opportunities and emerging institutional priorities. We will take athletics coaching seriously as an area for professional development, and dedicate the resources needed to enhance our coaches’ skill, creativity, and expertise.
Sailing is a fully funded varsity sport for the 500 students in grades 9-12 at Stevenson, a selective coeducational boarding and day school with campuses in Carmel (grades pre-K through 8) and Pebble Beach (grades 9-12). The Stevenson Sailing Base is located in Monterey, twenty minutes from the Pebble Beach campus. Sailing has been part of the school’s program since 1975; the current fleet consists of six CFJs, one Laser and a Boston Whaler berthed at a 50-foot float in the city marina. The program runs after school and on weekends in the spring and fall seasons and on weekends only in the winter.
News Flash: Stevenson School is Hiring a Head Sailing Coach!
2018 Port of Los Angles’ Harbor Cup Results & Report
By Airwaves Senior Writer Taylor Penwell
The top teams in collegiate offshore sailing descended on San Pedro, California for the Port of Los Angles’ Harbor Cup this past weekend. The event made for three days of 
exciting racing on Catalina 37s. Ten teams attended the regatta that wrapped up yesterday March 11th.
First day racing conditions saw light winds of 2-4 knots in the first race causing the race committee to shorten and then eventually discard it. Soon after the first race the breeze then began building up to 5 and later 10 knots from a westerly direction. Everyone on the course was fast and the starts, rounding’s, and finishes were all very tight.
Second day conditions were an easterly, very light and shifty. 5-8 knots. Starts were crucial in order to find a good lane.
In the final day of racing the breeze was solid out of the east at 5-8 knots. College of Charleston started at the pin and led the entirety of race 9. Race 10 was light and the fleet was very tight. Crosses were close due to starboard tack being very favorable due to the wave state.
In the end the Naval Academy Midshipmen came out on top with an excellent regatta raced. 2nd place University of California Santa Barbara Gauchos finished two points ahead of the University of South Florida Bulls.
Congratulations to the Naval Academy on their win and to all the other competitors of this great event in collegiate sailing!
Commentary courtesy of Sam Tobio and photos by Joy Sailing
Gill Launches New Website!
Gill just launched their new website! As an incentive to check it out, the new Outlet is an additional 20% off. Shop now: https://www.gillmarine.com/us/outlet.html
Protect Your Investment: Sailing Helmet Sale!!
Reliable Racing is on the forefront of performance sailing safety. Won’t be long will we’re all wearing helmets and we’ll be better off for it (think skiing, and ice hockey). Take advantage of this 20% sale on helmets and 10% sale on helmet covers!!
Reliable Racing having a sale through the end of April on our Pro-Tec helmets and custom helmet covers.
- Pro-Tec Ace Helmets: Reg. $54.95, Now $43.96
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2018 ICSA Team Race Rankings #1, March 9
Friday, 9 March 2018– Here we go! Another spring filled with thrilling and highly competitive college team racing. Please support our sponsors who bring these rankings to you: Dynamic Dollies & Reliable Racing. My sailing team uses Dynamic dollies, as many do, and as good as their product is, I can say that their service, support, and professionalism are all even better. As for Reliable Racing, more and more we see competitive sailing improving and upgrading both the look and feel of the sport. Reliable Racing is ready to help your team do just that, with pinnies, sailing-specific helmets, and more.
The season is already underway, with results to give our coaches some data, including the Sharpe Trophy at Brown & the Bob Bavier at Charleston.
Top 5:
To see the FULL rankings and all the analysis, CLICK HERE!
Rankings are an average of our five panel team, Dillon Paiva (Navy), Johnny Norfleet (fordham), Bill Healy (Yale), Clinton Hayes (Stanford), and Ken Legler (Tufts). Complete with comments, these rankings help provide our fans and players alike not only with thoughts on who’s who, but also they offer quick analysis and glimpses into the teams themselves in the coaches comments. Enjoy!
About Sail1Design
Sail1Design is a grassroots organization, by sailors for sailors, dedicated to the youth, high school, college, and one-design sailing communities. Born in 2007, Sail1Design has grown considerably, and reaches out to all sailors wishing to enjoy and learn more about our sport. We have three main areas of business:
SAILING/MARINE INDUSTRY CAREER CENTER & JOB BOARD
We offer sailing’s #1 Career Center and Job Board, always chock full of incredible sailing job opportunities. Our comprehensive career center also offers job seekers the ability to create their own web page, highlighting their experience and posting their resume. Likewise, employers can search our resume database to find the right match for that open position. Sail1Design is proud also to be the official job board of the Intercollegiate Sailing Association (ICSA), the US High School Sailing Association (ISSA), and US Sailing.
MARKETPLACE & PROFESSIONAL BROKERAGE
Unique to the industry, Sail1Design hosts and manages an active private, by-owner marketplace, focusing on performance and one-design sailboats & gear. For all boats under 25′, our ads are free. What makes us different is that we also provide, side-by-side, professional brokerage services as well. We have had great success helping our sailing clients market and sell their boats, using our powerful client base, social media, and the brokerage industries multiple listing service to ensure your boat gets noticed.
AIRWAVES NEWS & CALENDAR
S1D also hosts Airwaves, an interactive, user fed Sailing Calendar and informative Sailing News, Articles, tips, & more. Airwaves has developed a great niche in the sailing publication world, and now boasts a seven-member staff of dedicated sailors, all contributing to our varied content.
