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2015 US High School (Mallory) National Championship Results

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Saturday, May 9:

The first day of the 2015 Mallory Trophy started out with cloudy conditions in Annapolis. The fleet headed out at 1000 but was delayed on the water for a while due to lack of wind. Eventually, a course was set in the Severn River off the Robert Crown Center and 4 Windward Leeward Races were held per division. A division started in Z420s while B was in FJS. After a lunch break and a failed attempt to get more racing in in the early afternoon, a course was eventually set late in the day under sunny skies for three more races per division. The wind was light all day and all races were sailed in 3-5 knots of wind. PRO Kyle Assad and his RC team did a great job of making the most out of the conditions while our incredible judge team of Sandy Grosvenor, Jeff Borland, Rob Rowlands, Andrew Cole, David Clinnin and Josh Greenslade kept everything fair by enforcing rule 42 on the water and hearing two protests, resulting in one DSQ, at the end of the day. Top 10 Final scores:
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Sunday, May 10:

When the competitors arrived Sunday morning, the racing area was covered in fog. The fog began to lift as the fleet left the dock however, and racing began on time off Triton Point. For Sunday’s racing, B division switched into the Z420s and A sailed FJs. The wind started out light, but as the fog faded away and the air got clear and warm, the wind steadily increased, hitting the mid to upper teens by the afternoon. In all, 11 additional races per division were completed with a lunch break before the 4PM cutoff. The RC team did a terrific job getting off fair races quickly while our outstanding judges served many duties, including calling rule 42 violations, observing the racing, shuttling substitutes onto the water and hearing protests at the end of the day, which resulted in 2 DSQs. After a long weekend sailing in a wide range of conditions, Newport Harbor High School came out on top to claim the 2015 Mallory Trophy. Congratulations to the Sailors!
For full results go here: http://scores.hssailing.org/s15/mallory/

Club Profile: Breakwater Yacht Club

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Based in beautiful Sag Harbor, Breakwater Yacht Club has been introducing people to sailing since 1987.  Overlooking the bay and just down the street from Sag Harbor Yacht Club, the BYC is a not-for-profit Community Sailing Center with the mission of providing affordable, accessible sailing to all ages and abilities.  An alternative to some of the other, private clubs in Sag Harbor, BYC hopes to expose as many people to sailing as possible.
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Sag Harbor, a village located out of the tip of Long Island, is squarely in the middle of the Hamptons. So much, in fact, that part of the town is in East Hampton and the other part in Southampton.  Sag Harbor Bay played host to a huge number of shipping vessels in the 1700s and 1800s as an international port.  The Bay itself is large and sheltered from the ocean.
The BYC clubhouse is located in the heart of the Sag Harbor waterfront with facilities right on the water and stones throw from Sag Harbor Yacht Club.  The club fleet consists of 15 JY15’s, 15 Optis, eight Lasers, six 420s, four chase boats and two J/70s.  These are all used lessons and club racing.  Membership numbers around 400 with another 450 or so Junior Sailors on an annual basis.
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As a Community Sailing Center, the BYC has become increasingly popular over the past few years as a learn-to-sail destination.  The mission has always been to expose and introduce as many young people as possible to the sport of sailing, and try to foster a love that will keep them coming back.  Many current instructors were once junior sailors themselves, as is common in many programs.  Offering weekly camps as well as racing programs and summer racing series, the BYC provides affordable sailing instruction and accessibility to racing in a unique location.  The club offers 75 scholarships to young sailors who may not usually have the opportunity to experience a sailing program.
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Through the years the club has grown and changed from a membership standpoint as well as a physical facility.  Junior sailors have grown up and are now sending their children to learn how to sail.  High school sailors practice at the facility in the spring in the cold waters of Sag Harbor Bay and intrepid racers make their way onto the bay in the late spring.  Membership dues are very reasonable, providing a platform for young people to get on the water without having to own a boat.  The BYC is a uniquely situated program on the east end of Long Island with a mission of involving as many people in sailing as possible.

S1D Announces Team Racing Umpire School

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tr1UPDATE: Severn Sailing Association to hold “Team Race Winter League“, and in so doing, to launch the Umpire School! Umpires will get a chance to referee team race games and hone their skills!!!
News Flash: Team racing has evolved far beyond our administrative resources to properly manage and officiate it.
For Immediate Release: Annapolis, MD– Thirty years ago, team racing was competitive, fun, somewhat new, but also vastly different from the game we watch today. I distinctly remember, as a high school sailor, and even in college, sailing port-triangles, four on four, with first place counting a 3/4 of a point. Imagine the combos! In some cases, taking cues from British team racing, great American team racing innovators, Gary Bodie, Fran Charles, Ken Legler, Scott Ikle, Adam Werblow, to name just a very few, have created a wonderful new monster: the digital-N, among other courses, and 3 on 3. What has also developed exponentially is player preparation, skill level, and experience in the game.
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Today, team racing is on a level that few would have imagined back in the day. Sail1Design ranks the top collegiate team race teams, and our panel of college coaches is continually impressed with the maturation of the sport. In fact, high school team race teams, Point Loma, Newport Harbor, Tabor, St. Georges, etc., today are easily as competitive as college teams were ten years ago.
truIt’s (almost) all good! However, if there’s one thing that might be lagging behind, it is application of the rules while the game is being played. Team racing long ago outgrew Corinthian self-monitoring. Fleet race judging, and team race umpiring emerged in sailing, developing alongside a more competitive sport, where athletes continue to push themselves, and the boundaries of the sport, further. Professionalization leads to higher performance, which is great, but also has other consequences, some of which need to be addressed.
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Unlike fleet racing, where one still may compete at very high levels with the self-policing philosophy of, say, golf, team racing is more a game than a race, and therefore, like most other games, needs referees. We call them umpires.
Imagine going to a football or hockey game without referees. Unimaginable. As a dad of a 10 year old, I know that even youth lacrosse would be like Lord of the Flies out there without the men or women in stripes to keep things in line. Team racing has evolved to the point where our sport needs to join, or create, an organization like the National Association of Sports Officials. While collegiate umpiring is somewhat well-appointed, high school team race umpiring needs more support. We need better referees in a sport that demands it. All too often, competing high school coaches serve as umpires in high school team race regattas. This is awkward at best, and potentially inappropriate.
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Sail1Design is developing a Team Race Umpire School, here in Annapolis, MD. We are especially interested in developing umpires, and a stipend for them, for refereeing high school sailing regattas. This will include classroom discussion, and feature on-the-water live practice umpiring. We want to create more umpires, and a fund that will help pay them for their efforts. S1D also seeks corporate sponsors to help in the effort. Join us, and let’s make a great game better, at the most important levels…. the grass roots. Youth and high school, and even college, teams need better referees so our game can continue to evolve.
Now with the Team Race Winter League, we have a series and venue for our laboratory!
For more information, contact us!

Sail1Design Brokerage Newsletter, Spring 2015

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Hello Friends;
Greetings from Sail1Design! We hope this newsletter finds you well. After a very long, very cold winter, Sail1Design’s brokerage has been busy, and our partnership with Cruising Yachts/Sail California gives us a great team to work with on the west coast. We offer some of the finest sailing yachts in the world, with years of cruising, racing, and blue water experience to help our clients make all the right choices.
Check out all the listings:  http://marketplace.sail1design.com/classified/
Below is a short list of just some of our offerings. As always, I am more than happy to research and help with your individual yachting interests, so please do not hesitate to call or email with questions! We always appreciate referrals, so if you know someone interested in selling or buying, please send them our way!
For more information contact us :  brokerage@sail1design.com
Selected Brokerage Yachts
ocanadaOwen Clark OPEN 60   “O Canada” was originally designed and built 2005 to compete in the short handed events globally. She had a total upgrade/refit in 2009, was used as a training boat for the Canadian Sailing team culminating with the Transpac in 2011. Since then she has been out of the water in storage and has just been put back together and sailing again.   US $580,000
kelsallMulti-Hull Custom Kelsall 70   This Custom 70 Multi-hull, My Way Forever, is a world class cruiser custom built to the highest standards. She was launched in 2004 in New Zealand, by builder’s, Pachoud Motor Yachts New Zealand. Since then, she has completed two (2) circumnavigations, which have included several Pacific crossings and trips to Asia, the Mediterranean and the Caribbean. Now it is your turn to own this extraordinary yacht to cruise any where that You would like. My Way Forever has been continuously maintained and updated making sure she is always ready to sail away.  $2,250,000
bHinckley Pilot 35  Sally is a lovingly cared-for, indoor-stored Hinckley Pilot 35. Recently re-powered, she is in excellent condition, well-equipped, and ready for the next owner. Always stored indoors, this is a wonderful boat and a great opportunity! Spring is soon upon us, and this boat won’t last long!!  Sale Pending
 
53cSANTA CRUZ 53 C    Known for their successful ultra-light racers, Santa Cruz Yachts built the Santa Cruz 53C as a fully dedicated performance cruiser.  The Santa Cruz 53C has the same hull form as the racy 52 but incorporates a multitude of features that have simplified it for shorthanded sailing and has made it a much more offshore cruising oriented boat. Conceptualized for couples doing long-distance cruising, the main can be reefed singlehandedly from the cockpit with all control lines for everything aft as well.  US $495,000
farr30Farr (Mumm) 30   Pneumaddict is a very clean Farr 30 (Formerly know as Mumm 30). She has been completely renewed in preparation for the Single-Handed Transpac. She didn’t up racing as the owner had something come up. Here’s a long list of jobs completed in the boat. $52,500
 
mtgayMt. Gay / Whitbread 30  World-famous Sticky Fingers, winner of the double-handed Round Great Britain Race, and the very first (Whitbread) 30 ever built, is for sale. Designed bySimon Rogers, this is one incredible boat. Located in South Africa, we will work with you to get this fantastic boat (equipped with trailer) shipped to your location.
 
sydSydney 41    1998 Bashford International BH41 custom built for 1st owner Seth Radow,. This is the only BH41 with an Epoxy hull and deck, hull #26. New LPU paint, Micron 66 bottom, New Sails, new covers, upgraded electronics with Expedition, In total more than 60,000 spent in 2014 on upgrades. $154,900
 
bakemeCustom Bakewell-White 50’ Offshore Cruiser     If you are looking for the ultimate short-handed 50 footer to see the world in this is it. Brisa is a modern, custom performance blue water cruiser with a large enclosed hard dodger. Hull and deck are vacuum bagged epoxy sandwich construction using closed cell foam core with carbon and Kevlar in high stress areas. The design includes 2- 265 gallon fresh water ballast tanks which increase stability and comfort on up wind passages without adding any additional weight.  US $449,000
Owen Clarke Open 50     Truth is an Open 50 designed by Owen Clarke and built by McConaghy in Australia. Construction is prepreg carbon with Nomex core., canting keel and dual dagger boards. Originally launched as Artforms in the Spring of 2003. After an extensive refit at Eric Goetz’s yard in Newport RI, Philippe Kahn raced her as Pegasus to victory in the double–handed Pac Cup. Truth is dry stored at the KKMI boat yard in Richmond Ca.  US $295,000 Sale Pending
More About Sail1Design:
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.  brokerage@sail1design.com 
 
 
 

Profiles in Pro Sailing: Rozalia Project’s Rachael Miller

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Rachel Miller arrived at her vacation cottage on an island in the Gulf of Maine and flew into action.  Disgusted by all of the marine debris in the water and well above the tide line, Rachel spent the entire first day of her vacation doing a beach clean up.  Her husband, James Lyne, quickly recognized what roused Rachael’s passion and ire more than anything – ocean trash.  Not long after that October day in 2009, The Rozalia Project, a 501 c 3 non-profit, to develop real world solutions to our ocean pollution problems, was born.
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Since 2010 Rachael, James, and Rozalia staff, crew, interns, sponsors, and supporters  have been championing healthy oceans education, remediation (cleanup), innovation, and doing solutions-based research.   Rozalia focuses on urban and coastal waters believing the source of the pollution is at the land-sea interface.  “Reduce, reuse, and recycle” is among the organization’s mantras.  Armed with data from numerous expeditions and collaborations with a variety of organizations, scientists, researchers, and STEM programs, Rozalia Project has just launched NoFish2048.  Believing that all of the fisheries that are currently fished for food will collapse by 2048 unless we take direct action quickly, NoFish2048 works to stop overfishing of our oceans.
The sexy part of the Rozalia Project’s efforts is its ocean expeditions aboard  American Promise, an environmentally-friendly ocean research sailing vessel, in New England’s coastal waters.  Rozalia Project uses these two, three-week-long expeditions collect data and imagery,.  While spaces for crew, scientists, researchers, and ocean advocates aboard American Promise’s 2015 expeditions are nearly full, Rozalia Project would love to hear from grand prix and seasoned sailors to volunteer to lend their skills to the expeditions as captains and chief mates so the researchers can dedicate more time to their on the water research.  Energetic, flexible, dog-loving, ocean-loving people are invited to apply.
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Miller gave a compelling TEDx presentation in May 2014 in which she provided shocking statistics about the quantity of trash in our ocean waters.  It’s common practice for sailors to check for kelp and weed on their keels, centerboards, daggerboards, and rudders, but if a seal in Boston Harbor encounters a piece of trash ever 100 feet and a dolphin in Marina del Rey encounters 33 pieces of trash every 100 feet, we had better keep our eyes peeled for trash too.
Right now, 50 million tons of trash and plastics are being added to our oceans every year.  Trash is covering the sea floor and smothering the marine environment.  Much of the trash is entering our watershed as runoff from urban areas.  The concentration of trash in the coastal waters off of urban areas is 2 to 10 times greater than it is in the ocean trash gyres that we’ve all heard and read about.  That’s why Rachael and the Rozalia Project focus on the interface.
The Rozalia Project has worked closely with US Sailing’s Reach initiative in developing its STEM Module 6.  Rozalia analyzes the data collected by the STEM programs to help them understand the source of their localized pollution and implement long-term solutions.  Miller makes it clear, “Rozalia is an equal opportunity marine debris program, we’re not just about eliminating ocean plastics.”  She is particularly excited about the Point Loma High School Sailing Team’s Spring Cleaning Challenge.  News and photos of the Challenge appear in ISSA News and on the High School Sailing Clean Ocean Facebook Page.  Point Loma is challenging all high school sailing teams to clean a shoreline near them, collect data, seek solutions and post pictures on the Facebook page.
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Rachael and the Rozalia Project have identified the land-sea interface as the location where all of us can focus on.  That’s why participating in beach clean ups and picking up trash along the beach, gutters, and trails every time you take your dog for a walk are so important. Once we find those wrappers, plastics, cigarette butts, and broken pieces of foam, retrieve them and dispose of them properly, even if it means carrying the extra weight back to shore.  Take it from Rachael, “Every little bit counts.”
Thank you Rachael Miller for taking action, networking, collaborating, and inspiring sailors everywhere to become better ocean stewards. Listen to Rachael and learn more about the Rozalia Project.
Watch her TEDx talk
Check out The Rozalia Project website
Learn more about 2015 expeditions aboard American Promise
Learn more about Point Loma Spring Cleaning Challenge! 
Share your Spring Cleaning Challenge News and Photos on Facebook
 

STEM Modules Diversify Sailing Programs

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STEM-EducationAs community and yacht club sailing programs gear up for the summer by hiring instructors and pulling boats out of the storage shed there’s more and more talk of STEM.  Your understanding and experience with STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) curricula will vary depending on your previous exposure.  Believe it or not, some of us still have not heard about creative ways to include STEM elements into sailing classes.  It’s nothing to be embarrassed about, but the sooner you are comfortable with it the more likely it is that you will lead the charge to incorporate STEM modules your summer program’s offerings.
US Sailing, Spirit of America, SeaPerch, and National Sailing Hall of Fame, know America needs designers, engineers, builders, and professionals who are comfortable with math and science.  They have been developing and packaging instructional materials, instructor training courses, curricula, kits, and contests so that you can offer a fun, hands-on, out-of-the-box, turnkey STEM programs as part of your organization’s waterfront training program. STEM programs make physics fun and environmental science engaging for middle and high school students by using boats to access the natural environment as a classroom.  It takes a committed advocate to start a STEM program and a number of moving parts need to come together to get it off the ground.  Rather than recreate the wheel, take advantage of the developmental and implementation experience of these proven and readily available module offerings.
US Sailing, through its Reach initiative, has created ten modules incorporating math, physics, environmental science, and physical science. They align with Common Core and Next Generation standards and enable educators and sailing instructors to share a common language and platform.  The modules can be used as rainy day material or as four to eight-week programs that will give your students an understanding of isosceles triangles, volume, displacement, speed, and pressure differentials, and become better environmental stewards too.
Over 400 programs have purchased US Sailing’s Reach middle school STEM modules and the trend is growing.  US Sailing encourages K-12 teachers and sailing instructors to attend their STEM educator training workshops as a way to acquire an immediate peer group and network of 12-15 other STEM sailing instructors and educators.  These one-day, eight-hour professional development/training sessions are hosted at a number of interesting venues including the U.S. Naval Academy and Shake a Leg Miami.
Jessica Servis, US Sailing’s Reach Program Manager, believes, “Community sailing centers are the nexus for students, STEM concepts, and real world career paths. In many cases, we start at the beginning by bringing the kids to water for the first time. Once there, scientists may teach them how to take biodiversity samples or NOAA professionals may introduce them to concepts such as weather patterns”.  Whether its in the lab, on the dock, or aboard a boat, when the aha! moment strikes, it’s rewarding for students and teachers alike.
Spirit of America has certified 22 programs around the country in its curriculum. Students receive five hours of instruction in each boating discipline – paddle, sail, and power boating, and they spend time on a state boating law enforcement vessel or Coast Guard vessel.  Over 10,000 students have learned equipment awareness, drowning prevention, and all they need to pass their State Boating Education Course.   For some kids getting that blue card is just as important as getting your automobile driver’s license.
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In less than a decade, over 200,000 middle school, high school, and first year college students have been introduced to underwater robotics through SeaPerch. Sponsored by the Office of Naval Research and managed by the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International, last year alone, over 70,000 students built underwater robots from SeaPerch kits.  New England Science & Sailing (NESS) and other sailing and community boating programs have adapted the robots so they can collect marine specimens and debris off docks and along beaches.   Over 25% of SeaPerch participants have indicated they were more interested in studying STEM after building and operating their underwater robot.
Susan Giver Nelson, SeaPerch’s Executive Director credits the program’s success to numerous factors, yet “Maybe the least tangible but most important, the kids have responded to SeaPerch in a way not seen with most other hands-on programs. One teacher, who has taught for 30 years, said, ‘This is the best thing I have ever done in my classroom’”.
If you want to add variety to your sailing program and help kids gain a hands-on appreciation and understanding for science, technology, engineering, and math concepts that may be easier understood on the beach, on the dock, in the water, or in a boat, than in a classroom, consider looking into the STEM modules that have been introduced to thousands of middle school and high school students around the country by US Sailing, Spirit of America, National Sailing Hall of Fame, and SeaPerch.
REACH – US Sailing’s STEM Education Program – http://reach.ussailing.org
Spirit of America – America’s Premier Youth Boating Education Programs – http://spiritofamerica95.org
SeaPerch – http://www.seaperch.org
National Sailing Hall of Fame – STEM Sailing™ Educational Resource Center

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