I just wanted to make sure readers were aware of another path after college. Oakcliff Sailing in Oyster Bay NY is designed to take promising sailors to the next level. Check out the web site and specifically the acorn program at http://www.oakcliffsailing.org Acorns are trained in every position on the boat, every job in the shop as well as the front office. It is a full time tuition based program which lets you pick a specialization from match racing, offshore, short handed, fleet both handicap and level racing. Essentially an MBA on and around boats. Applications are being taken for the 2013 class.
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When Sailboats Get Big: A College Sailor Makes the Transition to Keelboats
By Elizabeth Dudley, Airwaves Writer
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Sail1Design is excited to introduce our newest team member, Elizabeth Dudley. Elizabeth grew up sailing on the Chesapeake Bay. She went to The Gunston School where she sailed and was captain of the Varsity Sailing Team. Elizabeth also attended and graduated from Boston College in May 2011 with a Bachelor of Arts in English. She sailed for the Boston College Varsity Sailing Team all four years on the women’s circuit as a crew and was twice named to the NEISA First Crew Team. Elizabeth is now living and working in the Maryland/DC area, and joins the Airwaves team as a writer and reporter. Enjoy her first piece below. |
You have been a dinghy sailor all of your life, but as you get older, and especially after college, there are fewer occasions to sail dinghies. So do you continue to search for dinghy sailing opportunities? Maybe look to enter a different one design class? Or, do you look towards something bigger?
As a recent college graduate, I have been asking myself that question quite a lot this summer. How can I keep myself sailing? I no longer have mandatory practices four days a week and college regattas on weekends. So when the opportunity to sail a “big boat”, a SR 33 in the A2 class during Annapolis Race Week, presented itself I was on board. It would be my first “big boat” experience. I was not sure what to expect.
I asked the owner of the boat what my job would be and he told me “you will probably just be an extra set of hands until you work yourself into a more permanent position”. An extra set of hands? How much could there possibly be to do? Apparently enough to warrant having ten people on board. And since when did I have to earn a job on a boat? So long to my college sailing days where the skipper drove and played the main while the crew did everything else. Turns out, a “big boat” is comparable to an organism. Everyone has his or her specific job that must be performed in a specific order. If jobs are not executed in the proper sequence problems arise all too quickly.
So I arrived at the dock Saturday morning feeling nervous and apprehensive, assuming my day would consist of staying out of the way and being rail-meat. I feel confident in saying that I can hold my own on a sailboat, but I have spent my entire sailing career on boats under fifteen feet. I was about to sail a boat twice that size and with eight more people than I was comfortable with. I was not even sure what to do to help rig. For the first time in a long time, I felt out of my element around a boat. When I asked what I could do to help, I was handed a grocery bag full of meat and bread and was sent to make sandwiches. I was clearly the low man on the totem pole. I had become the new guy in my own sport. Great.
After a long motor out to the race course it was time to raise the main. To me, it was a massive 374 foot main which took several people to hoist. It was no longer the one person job I was accustomed to and my goal was to continue to stay out from under foot. But then the racing started; the same racing I have been participating in since I was eight. I immediately started to feel more comfortable, at least after the start. I am not sure I have ever been in a scarier boat-on-boat situation. There were a lot of big boats in a small space. In an attempt to calm the chaos around me I made myself official time keeper. I yelled louder than I ever have on any boat and apparently even that was not always loud enough. However, I had created my first job and my second was soon to follow. I was asked, as a dinghy sailor, to call puffs. A simple enough task but crucial for the main trimmer who can not necessarily see them coming. It was also good to keep the rest of the crew in the loop. Calling puffs was something I was very familiar with but I was worried that they way I had always done it was wrong for “big boats”. Turns out, consistency is all that really matters.
As sailing goes, there are a lot of different ways to do just about everything on a boat. Just because you do something differently than someone else does not mean that either of you are wrong. You have to figure out what works for you and your boat. This goes for all aspects of sailing, including planning out a route across the boat during tacks and gybes. There is a lot going on and a lot of hardware/people to step on/fall over. It may also be prudent to take a look at the rail and attempt not to be the person that gets stuck sitting on the twing block for the majority of the upwinds. I was not so lucky and the back of my legs still hate me.
On this boat, my upwinds became much more focused on the one task of calling puffs. That alone was my responsibility. It almost felt more stressful than sailing a dinghy where the crew has a few more tasks on their list. But I was involved and that felt great. When we turned downwind, we needed someone to fly the pole, so I volunteered. Although I did make sure to announce that, like everything else on this boat, I had never done it before. But I had in fact done it before. It is the exact same concept as flying a spinnaker on a 420, just on a larger scale and with a winch. It took a little bit more coordination than I was accustomed to but again, it was not completely foreign. I was contributing and it felt good.
I was the new guy on a boat filled with people who had known each other and had been sailing together for at least a season. It was intimidating. But I tried to be involved as much as possible, without over stepping my “new guy” status. Sailing with ten people has a completely different feel than sailing with just two. There are so many moving pieces and everyone has to work together to make the boat move forward. It is really cool to be a part of that.
It is impossible to know everything that there is to know about sailing. But almost everything carries over from one aspect of the sport to another. If you know how to sail one boat, odds are you can figure out another with time. Just because you are a dinghy sailor and have never stepped foot on a boat over 15 feet, does not mean you have to limit yourself to small boats. The sailing world is a small world, we
all know that. But it is often times bigger than you think and there are plenty of opportunities. So take a chance and expand your horizons.
You can reach Elizabeth at : elizabeth@sail1design.com
World’s Top Match Racers Compete in Nations Cup Final Sept 13 – 18
Sheboygan, WI – Crowning the world’s best match racing nation, the Grand Final of the ISAF Nations Cup comes to Sheboygan, Wisconsin, USA from 13-18 September.
Hosted by Sail Sheboygan, the competition will see some of the finest sailors from across the globe mixing it up along the Lake Michigan shore in identical one-design class sailboats for this culmination of a series of eight match racing regattas that started in Porto Alegre, Brazil, on 24 March.
The ISAF Nations Cup is a global competition to find the world’s top match racing nation in open and women’s events, while also promoting and developing the sport of match racing in sailing, which pits one boat against another. Gaining popularity, women’s match racing will make its debut as an Olympic Sailing event for the 2012 Olympic Games in London. The 2011 Nations Cup included seven regional finals, from which the top teams will compete in Sheboygan. The Grand Final will be sailed in the Sonar class for the open event and the Elliott 6m for the women’s event.
Ten teams will compete in the women’s event, and ten entries have been confirmed in the open event. In the women’s event, two-time defending champion and number one ISAF ranked women’s match racing skipper and #4 in the world, Claire Leroy (FRA) and her crew will go up against the American team led by Genny Tulloch, ranked #11, and Olympic medallist Mandy Mulder of the Netherlands, ranked #17. Further competition is expected from the Brazilian team led by Nations Cup veteran Juliana Senfft.
The open event will see American Shawn Bennett and his crew of Dave Perry and Craig Healy take on the Danish team led by Mads Ebler, ranked #8 in the ISAF open match racing division rankings, and New Zealand match racing winner Laurie Jury and his team. Racing for Poland will be three-time Polish match racing champion Przemek Tarnacki. Teams representing Australia, Great Britain, South Africa, France, China, Pakistan, Greece, Turkey and Canada will also be sailing for the cup.
Antonio González De Le Madrid, ISAF Competitions Manager, said, “We are delighted that some of the world’s best match racers will be making the trip to Sheboygan for the ISAF Nations Cup. There are some very experienced sailors lining up alongside those who are in the early stages of their development. Nonetheless it should make for a fantastic few days of match racing action.”
According to Sail Sheboygan’s, Executive Director, Rich Reichelsdorfer, said, “Sail Sheboygan is excited and honored to be hosting the Grand Final of the Nations Cup. We have assembled a top-class race management team backed up by a dedicated corps of volunteers for this premiere match-racing event and we can’t wait to show the world our facility. With dozens of the best match-racing sailors in the world coming to Sheboygan, the ISAF Nations Cup will be a spectacle to be enjoyed both by sailors and spectators alike. The racing is sure to be fast and furious and the onshore activities will be equally fun.”
A non-profit organization, Sail Sheboygan, was formed in 2004 to promote national and international sailing competition and education. As one of only four US Sailing Centers, its mission is to develop sailing and seamanship at all levels, regardless of age, income, ability or disability.
Event Sponsors Include: Blue Harbor Resort, Plenco, HSA Bank, Festival Foods, GrandStay Residential Suites, Harken, North Sails, Edgewater Boats, Southern Spars, Bemis Mfg. Co., Harbor Centre Marina, Vollrath Co., SAILING Magazine, Coca-Cola, Vinyl Graphics, Johnsonville Sausage, Sheboygan Tourism (www.visitsheboygan.com) and Wisconsin Department of Tourism (www.travelwisconsin.com).
For more information, including a schedule of events go to:
http://www.nationscup2011.org or www.visitsheboygan.com.
Follow the racing action at:
Daily Video Recap: http://www.t2p.tv/index.php
Twitter: http://twitter.com/#!/NationsCup2011
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Nations-Cup-2011/226321360717717
List of Competitors:
Open Division
Mads Ebler Denmark
Laurie Jury
New Zealand
Przemek Tarnacki Poland
Henrique Haddad Brazil
Stratis Andreadis Greece
Shawn Bennett USA
Peter Wickwire Canada
Yasar Celal Tümsen Turkey
Rauf Zahid Pakistan
Lucy Macgregor Great Britain
Women’s Division
Claire Leroy
France
Genevieve Tulloch USA
Juliana Senfft Brazil
Mandy Mulder Netherlands
Rita Gonçalves Portugal
Olivia Price Australia
Katarzyna Pic&
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Ru Wang China
Dominique Provoyeur South Africa
Sharon Ferris-Choat Canada
2011 Rolex International Women's Keelboat Championship Results
US SAILING’s 2011 Rolex International Women’s Keelboat Championship
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J/22 (36 boats) (top)
Series Standing – 11 races scored
Information is provisional and subject to modification
Regatta results last updated: Thursday, September 01, 2011 5:41:00 PM CDT
Click on race number to view detailed race information.
Pos,Bow/Sail, Boat, Skipper, Hometown, Country, Results, Total Points
1. 32 / USA1466, Lucy, Cory Sertl/Amy Moran
Annemarie Cook
Jane Mastrandrea, Rochester, NY, USA, 6-[14]-8-2-1-1-3-8-1-6-3- ; 39
2. 26 / TBD, Team Maclaren, anna tunnicliffe/Debbie Capozzi
Molly O’Bryan Vandemoer
Liz Bower, plantation, fl, USA, 1-10-2-7-8-2-1-3-8-[18]-2- ; 44
3. 03 / 1575, , Sally Barkow/Annie Lush
Alana O’Reilly
Jacqueline Campbell, nashotah, wI, USA, 3-4-1-5-18-4-5-2-4-8-[37/DSQ]- ; 54
4. 05 / 1589, , Carol Cronin/Margaret Bonds Podlich
Karina Vogen Shelton
Kim Couranz, Jamestown, RI, USA, 9-1-10-1-6-13-7-4-[15]-3-4- ; 58
5. 36 / 1098, Instigator, Kirsten Werner/Samantha Webster
Brandy Cocoroch
Katelyn Thompson, Rochester, NY, USA, 11-3-5-10-7-9-8-1-5-1-[12]- ; 60
6. 08 / 1060, Leading Edge, Jo Ann Fisher/Lynda Hiller
Linda Epstein
Lesley Cook
Terry Hamilton, Mt Pleasant, SC, USA, [12]-8-3-9-5-5-2-6-12-5-6- ; 61
7. 04 / USA1649, , Allie Blecher/Alyssa Aitken
Molly Robinson
Sarah Somes, Fullerton, CA, USA, 4-7-[22.2/ZFP]-6-11-11-10-5-6-10-5- ; 75
8. 33 / 1466, , Katja Sertl/Merritt Moran
Julia Wiesner
Christine Moloney, Rochester, NY, USA, [25]-2-12-11-10-15-6-7-11-4-1- ; 79
9. 10 / 1291, , anne haeger/Stephanie Roble
Maggie Shea
Darby Smith, lake forest, il, USA, 8-9-7-4-[19]-8-9-13-7-11-9- ; 85
10. 23 / NED-1141, , Marieke Poulie/Renske Verbeek
Bregje Lodewikus
Leontien Benders, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, NED, 5-13-13-12-[24]-3-4-10-13-9-8- ; 90
11. 31 / 1050, WWJD, Donna Faust/Joy Martin
Jennifer Norton
Sarah DePeters, Webster, NY, USA, 2-11-6-15-2-10-16-9-[19]-12-11- ; 94
12. 17 / 1643, , Kristen Lane/Molly Carapiet
Jennifer Morgan Glass
Genevieve Tulloch, Tiburon, CA, USA, 10-16-[26]-3-9-7-18-11-2-7-16- ; 99
13. 07 / 1, TBD, Sharon Ferris/Alison Rowe
Joanne Prokop
Martha Parker, Toronto, Ontario, CAN, 16-5-[20]-8-16-6-13-19-10-13-10- ; 116
14. 16 / 908, #5, Meghan Jordan/Kelly Jordan
Lauren Cotta, East Amherst, New York, USA, 7-15-18-13-12-[20]-11-15-3-15-15- ; 124
15. 21 / CAN980, Double Deuce, Katie Coleman Nicoll/Clarity Nicoll
Rachel Furness
Briar Robertson, Etobicoke, Ontario, CAN, 15-12-21-14-13-17-14-[22]-14-2-14- ; 136
16. 28 / USA 1469, bob, Bridget Wiatrowski/Christa Georgeson
Jessica Claflin
Michelle Morphew, Winchester, MA, USA, 20-6-4-17-[36/SCP]-12-12-21-22-16-7- ; 137
17. 01 / 1536, Hot Ticket, Sandy Adzick/Hilary Armstrong
Sue Mikulski
Debbie Gibbons-Neff, Haverford, PA, USA, 13-21-[27]-19-21-18-15-14-9-14-13- ; 157
18. 22 / 1646, Sundog, Kathy Parks/Sarah Phelps
Regan Weaver
Lisa Simpkins, Shady Side, Maryland, USA, 17-26-9-16-4-16-17-17-17-[29]-20- ; 159
19. 15 / CAN789, Spaceball, Margaret Hurley/Michele Cimon
Linda Schmalz
Sarah Case, Ottawa, ON, CAN, 19-17-21.2/ZFP-27-23-14-22-[33]-16-17-19- ; 195.2
20. 30 / 354, Lola, Sarah Enwright/Vicky Jo Neiner
Marcy Lake
Barbara Gold, Rochester, NY, USA, 14-19-11-18-15-26-19-27-[28]-23-25- ; 197
21. 20 / 1058, Hey Sue, Susan McIntyre/Tamara Savrin
Beverly Keeler
Kelly Bechard, Lakewood, OH, USA, 21-27-19-30-[36]-24-20-20-18-22-17- ; 218
22. 34 / 75, Trophy Wives, Dawn Shumway/Linda Gardner
Lisa Dorsey
Jennifer Olney, Rochester, NY, USA, 22-20-17-25-20-23-26-24-23-28-[29]- ; 228T
23. 27 / USA 1090, Stellar Jay, Susan Mattis Turnham/Connie Bloom
Ann Heimbach
Amy Marincel, Duluth, MN, USA, 24-18-24-20-25-[27]-23-18-27-26-23- ; 228T
24. 02 / USA1205, Your Mom, Elizabeth Barker/Kate Keane
Taylor Robinson, Rocky River, OH, USA, 18-28-22-32-3-[33]-25-28-31-24-18- ; 229
25. 25 / 51, Dream Ticket, Tonja Sanchez/Gayle Finster
Susan Cassidy
Linda Bays, Denton, TX, USA, 26-23-16-[37/SCP]-17-25-27-25-32-25-26- ; 242
26. 18 / USA 1026, Jaime Mack, Jaime Mack/Kass Bergstrom
Susan Sutherland
Kateri Lohr, White Salmon, WA, USA, 28-22-[37/SCP]-21-14-31-32-37/DNS-20-19-22- ; 246
27. 29 / 263, Shark Sandwich, Linda Bowen/Louise Gleason
Victoria VanVoorhis
Heide Van Voorhis, Webster, NY, USA, [35]-24-32-33-29-19-35-16-24-20-30- ; 262
28. 13 / 815, Toni Hobbs, Toni Hobbs/Lynne Logan
Janice Graham-Foscarini
Paula Foscarini, Toront
o, ON, CAN, 23-33-30-24-26-30-24-31-21-[36]-28- ; 270
29. 06 / 166, , Kayla Ellis/Emily Raleigh
Ange Nissen
Amanda Attardi, New Gretna, New Jersey, USA, 29-25-28-23-30-28-21-26-[36]-31-34- ; 275
30. 11 / 1610, , Catherine Harris/Femke Le Duc
Cynthia Shinn
Bianca Grohmann, Hudson Heights, Quebec, CAN, [37/DNS]-37/OCS-34-31-31-32-29-12-30-27-21- ; 284
31. 12 / 1011, tung & groove, Kellie Hawkins Schaffner/Mindy Sminchak
Hilary DiCenzi
Meredith Dreshar, Avon Lake, OH, USA, 27-30-33-28-28-22-28-30-35-30-[37/SCP]- ; 291
32. 24 / 1416, , Jennifer Princing/Jaime Vanderhovel
Caroline Longshore
Kirsten Corneliussen, Saginaw, MI, USA, 30-29-23-22-32-[34]-33-29-34-33-33- ; 298T
33. 09 / 238, Eve ‘n Keeled, Jennifer Grant/Faye Black
Kerrie Serpa
Leslie Anderson, Destin, FL, USA, 31-31-31-35-27-[36]-36-23-26-34-24- ; 298T
34. 19 / 629, Frosty, Linda McDavitt/Ann Kitzmiller
Michelle Cyr
Chantal Pittman, Austin, Texas, USA, 34-32-25-34-34-21-[37/SCP]-32-33-32-31- ; 308
35. 14 / 1234, loose cannon, Anna Huebschmann/Elisa Schneider
Marsha Waite
Lucy Adams, youngstown, new york, USA, 32-34-[35]-26-35-29-34-34-29-21-35- ; 309
36. 35 / 745, Discovery, Lisa Smith/Penny Weller
Robin Rudy
Laney Johnson, Rochester, NY, USA, 33-[37/OCS]-36-36-33-35-30-35-25-35-32- ; 330
Notes
– Scoring System is ISAF Low Point 2009-2012
– Finishes in [brackets] denote throwouts
– Click on race number to view detailed race information.
Information is provisional and subject to modification
St. Francis Yacht Club Heavy Weather Laser Slalom 2011
From Vince Casalaina
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PDRacer upcoming World Championpship Race
PDRacer upcoming World Championpship Race
The Puddle Duck Racer is a fast growing sailboat club where members build their own boat and then compete with them in fun and goofy ways, and sometimes in very serious conventional buoy racing. The Puddle Duck Racer is the easiest boat in the world to build. All the hulls are alike, but the rest of the details of sail rig and underwater fins are up to the builder creating a unique hybrid between one design and open development type racing. Free plans, free club, everything you want to know about the duck is at:
Our Class Website: http://www.PDRacer.com
The annual PDRacer World Championship race is right around the corner, this year it is being hosted at Lake Eufaula in Oklahoma, USA on October 8, 2011. Many puddle duckers have already signed up for the race with over 40 hulls scheduled to compete in the main race. There will also be other sailboat games and fun activities during the 3 day event. For more information about how to participate, see the info page at PDRacer.com:
http://www.pdracer.com/world-championship-race/
The class also has a monthly newsletter featuring the latest articles & links that feature Puddle Duck Racers. The latest newsletter is available here: http://www.pdracer.com/news/news03/
The PDRacer is so easy to build, if you work hard for 2 weekends, you can go sailing on the third. So if you are interested in participating in this year’s main event, there is still time to build your duck and get involved !! Entry to the main race is free to anyone with a registered puddle duck, and registration is free.
Hope to see you on the water !!
