Its’ that time of year again! Please send in your nomination for 2016 Youth Sailing Team of the Year!
Teamwork. Chemistry. Dedication. Cooperation. Being on the same page as your partner and/or teammates is never easy, especially when that shared vision has to endure, and not simply be a statement of purpose on the dock. These characteristics are requirement in youth sailing team success. Sail1Design is proud to recognize the top North American Youth Sailing Team, each year, with this prestigious award.
The award is presented annually, in January, and reflects the efforts of a youth sailing team throughout that previous calendar year. We actively encourage written submissions of nomination. If you’d like to nominate a team, please write a 200 word minimum letter, with regatta results, to [email protected].
Sail1Design currently seeks a title, exclusive sponsor for this award. To learn more, contact [email protected]
WINNERS
2015 – Stephanie Houck & Camille White
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Club Profile: Downtown Sailing Center
The Downtown Sailing Center (DSC) is an award-winning, nonprofit 501 (c)(3) community sailing center offering sailing instruction and access to sailing through a variety of programming to the Greater Baltimore Community since 1994.
News Flash: Downtown Sailing Center is hiring 2 full-time positions, a Community Programs Director, and a Fleet & Membership Programs Director!!
The Downtown Sailing Center programs are available to the entire community. For adults, we offer adult education, recreational sailing open sails, Thursday Night Racing and cruising education. For youth, we offer junior’s camp, outreach programming that includes STEM curriculum, literacy education and Sailing Instructor Certification. For persons with disabilities we offer, accessible Saturdays, racing education and group outings.
“The Downtown Sailing Center provides quality education and life enriching programs that promote self-esteem and teamwork through the joy of sailing. The Downtown Sailing Center is committed to promoting an environment of inclusiveness and accessibility, especially to youth, persons with disabilities, and those with limited opportunity.“
We achieve our mission by:
- offering the community affordable access to quality sailing programs and events;
- providing education in sailing and water safety skills at all levels for all ages and abilities; and
- sponsoring both recreational and racing opportunities.
The DSC’s many sailing programs include junior day and overnight sailing camps, outreach programs for at-risk youth and persons with disabilities, adult lessons, cruising, open recreational sailing, corporate outings and team building, charters and racing.
The DSC is one of several hundred community sailing centers recognized by US SAILING, the national governing body of sailing. The DSC was recognized by US SAILING as the Outstanding New Program in 1997, Outstanding Seasonal Program in 1999 and Outstanding Community Program in 2012.
The Downtown Sailing Center’s (DSC) fleet of nearly forty boats, both daysailers and cruisers, as well as a handful of small powerboats. Many of the daysailers and all of the cruisers and powerboats have been donated to the DSC. Much of the fleet maintenance is performed by DSC members on a volunteer basis. Boats that are donated to the DSC are maintained — and, in many cases, restored — by members, then put into the fleet to be used in the DSC’s programs and activities. Many of the cruisers are offered for sale after being part of the DSC’s programs for three years.
Nominations Open for 2016 Youth Sailor of the Year!
Sponsored by KO Sailing, It’s that time of year again! S1D has already received nominations, so now is the time to write in and submit your nominations for:
Youth Sailor of the Year
Dedication. Perseverance. Independence. These are just some of the attributes of the go-it-alone sailor, the lone wolf who is able to train, plan, and compete by her or himself, and do it successfully. This award, presented by KO Sailing, goes to the North American youth sailor who best personifies the qualities necessary to be a successful athlete in the single-handed sailing world. If you think you know a deserving candidate for this award, tell us why in a 200 word minimum letter, to [email protected]. This award is presented annually, in January, after the preceding year’s full sailing season.
Dedication. Perseverance. Independence. These are just some of the attributes of the go-it-alone sailor, the lone wolf who is able to train, plan, and compete by her or himself, and do it successfully. This award, presented by KO Sailing, goes to the North American youth sailor who best personifies the qualities necessary to be a successful athlete in the single-handed sailing world. If you think you know a deserving candidate for this award, tell us why in a 200 word minimum letter, to [email protected]. This award is presented annually, in January, after the preceding year’s full sailing season.
Says Mark McNamara, president of KO Sailing, “KO sailing is a major supporter for competitive sailors between the ages of 8 and 18, helpin
g them to compete at the highest level. To us, the Lone Wolf Youth Sailor of the Year Award is a perfect way to recognize those individuals for their success and achievements in their respective elements. There is a great synergy between what KO Sailing is doing on the ground, and at events, in support of what these recipients have achieved. This program is just a great way for the country to recognize those sailors as they grow. Sail 1 Design, with their expertise and as the information resource for all things one design, is the only team to work with.”
Club Profile: Lake Sunapee Yacht Club
News Flash: LSYC is Hiring a Sailing Program Director!
Lake Sunapee Yacht Club is a family focused summer only club located on the western shore of Lake Sunapee in Sunapee NH. The club offers a wide range of adult and junior activities including sailing, tennis and swimming.
LSYC is the host of a large inland fleet of Star class one design racing boats and offers an active weekend racing schedule that non members are encouraged to join. Click the Star Racing menu for more information. The club hosts several regattas through the sailing season including the Lake Sunapee Open Regatta, district level Star regattas, and recently hosted the Star North American championships.
The LSYC is a private club, however Star sailing and regattas are open to non-members. 
Lake Sunapee Yacht Club is seeking a Sailing Program Director to direct every aspect of the LSYC junior sailing program’s operation. The goal of the program is to teach the junior sailors the basics of sailing, sailboat racing and general boating skills. The Program Director will also create an environment for both the sailors and staff that prioritizes safety, learning, healthy competition and fun. Above all, he or she should be an excellent role model for the sailors. LSYC junior classes include Sail-For-Fun, all Opti levels, 420 beginner through 
advanced, Adventure Sailing, a Sonar Class, and a Junior Instructor Course. The Program Director will manage his or her staff, implement a lesson curriculum and supervise maintenance of the junior YC fleet. The LSYC junior program has 55+/- sailors, ages 7 to 14. Boats: Optimists, 6 brand new 420’s, and a Sonar. Compensation for this 9.5-week program is based on experience and is negotiable. Housing is provided for qualified applicants.
2016 Optimist Sailor of the Year Award Nominations Now Open
Sail1Design is elated to announce that McLaughlin is now our exclusive sponsor of this award! Please keep reading about this exciting development, and what the winner of this award will receive!
Optimist sailing, for so many, is where it all starts. In fact, there may be no healthier one-design class in North America than the US Optimist Class. Sail1Design is proud to salute this boat, the people involved in the class, but most importantly, the kids who get out there and sail in this great little boat. This is the Lone Wolf in training, the next great singlehanded sailor! Last year’s Optimist Sailor of the Year, Luke Arnone, was a great choice. Who will it be this year? It’s up to you!
This award, announced each January, goes to the Optimist sailor, who in the evaluation of our judge panel (from nominated sailors), had the best overall sailing year, for the preceding calendar year.
HOW TO NOMINATE
This is YOUR award! We require written submissions of nomination; in fact we only choose from nominated sailors, and do not suggest nor solicit specific nominations. If you’d like to nominate an Optimist sailor, please write a 200 word minimum letter, with regatta results, to [email protected]. Please make sure we receive this letter before 31 DECEMBER 2016.
WHAT YOU WIN!
Thanks to McLaughlin, the winner will get 3 great awards in addition to the honor of winning:
1. A beautiful, framed & engraved 
painting to keep forever.
2. What’s more, and in keeping with the philosophy of both Sail1Design & McLaughlin, the winner will have the opportunity to give “the gift of giving”, or give back to sailing, and choose, on his or her own, an “up-and-coming” Optimist sailor to receive a FREE charter of a McLaughlin Optimist at a major US Optimist event on McLaughlin’s schedule! Sail1Design will help work out details of when and where this great gift is made.
3. Finally, the winner will ALSO receive his or her own free charter as well!
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| Eventually, California Snipe sailor and veteran boat builder Mike McLaughlin, who had worked at Chubasco most of his life, purchased the Snipe molds and moved the operation to Tennessee in response to the relocation of the International Snipe Headquarters to Chattanooga. Mike McLaughlin further expanded the company’s success and helped distribute the McLaughlin Snipe on a worldwide spectrum. Steve Sherman, Indiana lake sailor, and father of three boys (two of whom presently work at McLaughlin) purchased the company from Mike McLaughlin in ‘86. Thus began the materialization of his life long dream of contributing to the sport of sailing and in particular the Snipe class.  Steve Sherman, owner and head engineer from McLaughlin Boat Works, working with Luis Horta, IODA Chief Measurer. |
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| Steve’s commitment to innovation and continual improvement combined with his natural curiosity and “hands on” approach led the company to successes in many classes. At one time the company built the Lightning, Day Sailor, Windmill, Highlander, Thistle and Tanzer 16. MBW has always taken pride in pushing the forefront of foam/composite technology, such as being one of the first, outside of the aerospace industry, to use a vacuum bag in performance sail craft back in the early 1980’s. That history of innovation and continual improvement are evident today in our new dust and climate controlled production facility | |
| Beginning in 1990, at the request of families from the St. Petersburg Yacht Club, Mclaughlin began a new tradition building its first International Optimist Dinghy. Today, Mclaughlin specializes in the Optimist and has become one of the leading manufacturers in the World. As Steve Sherman puts it, “the Optimist is the single most important element in keeping sailing alive and healthy in the world today. From the tens of thousands of children that learn to sail each year around the world will come the sailors, Olympians, instructors, coaches and commodores of tomorrow’s society. My dream of contributing to sailing has come true by a hundred fold.”
Holding true to the original ideas of Elms and Shear, MBW continues as a business run by sailors for the benefit of sailors. You cannot build a successful company without good people. MBW has assembled a group of like-minded sailors who believe that if you provide the finest in customer service and the best product money can buy the rest will take care of its self. This is why MBW is the premiere partner with the United States Optimist Dinghy class organization (USODA) and supporter of the International Optimist Dinghy Association (IODA). |
Madison Beach Club Summer Sailing Instructors and Race Coach
