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Airwaves Career Center Spotlight: SailMaine is Hiring a Full-time Adult and Offshore Program Director!

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SailMaine seeks an Adult and Offshore Program Director to strengthen and expand our current offerings. For more information on the opportunity, and to apply, please see our official JOB AD HERE.

SailMaine’s mission is to provide affordable access to the water through community sailing and educational programming. Our vision is to make sailing accessible to all people in Maine as a vehicle for personal growth, a mode of connecting to nature, and a source of community.

SailMaine is a community sailing center based on the Portland waterfront. Our mission is to provide affordable access to the water through community sailing and educational programming.

We offer Junior Sailing Summer Programs, High School Competitive Sailing, Adult Learn to Sail Programs, Community and Corporate Programs, Adaptive Sailing, Social and Family Sailing and Boat Rentals. We aim to offer something for our entire community!

SailMaine hosts several events throughout the year, including regattas, fun races, social events and special sailing events. Our events are meant to get more people out on the water and build community around sailing. Come on down, get involved and get sailing!

Welcome new S1D Team Member: Professional Boats!

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Professional Boats celebrates 2 years of operations in the USA and is consolidated as the strongest rental company of Ribs (Rigid Inflatable Boats) for Sailing Coach in the country. In addition, Professional Boats is the exclusive representative of Tornado Boats, based in Denmark, in the United States.
From the hand of a large RIB construction company such as Tornado Boats, Rene Alvarez CEO of Professional Boats and former Olympic coach of Laser in Rio 2016 together with his wife Alyzu Delgado who manages the communications department and the renowned coach Scott Norman who manages the sales department, have achieved in a very short time an enviable fame as a service provider in sailing events in the country.
Professional Boats offers a fleet of 6 Tornado RIBs from 3.9M to 6.0M (13 to 20 feet) with Yamaha engines for rent throughout the country and Canada. Their services range from small events, trainings, clinics to support boats for regatta committees and juries.
All the boats in his fleet are excellently maintained and none are more than a year after first hitting the water. For this reason, it maintains a record of 100% punctuality and Zero down. So far, they have attended more than 55 events in these two years (even with the restrictions due to Covid-19 last year)
For Professional Boats the formula is simple: “The coach should only take care of his job as a coach.” All the rest of the logistics of your work boat is borne by the company including the delivery of the boat in the water, 100% operational and with a full tank of gasoline and many extras such as digital Windmeters, buoys, anchors, life jackets and much more.
Finally, and to close this letter of introduction Professional Boats sells new boats and their rental boats every year, at excellent prices with excellent maintenance. It also distributes new boats and provides service in the USA to all Tornado Boats products.

Airwaves Career Center News: Chicago YC is Hiring a Regatta Manager

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The Regatta Manager the leader of all Regattas and Races associated with the Chicago Yacht Club.  The Regatta Manager coordinates the efforts of multiple committees in order to execute regattas, clinics, and events on behalf of the Chicago Yacht Club. For more information, to see the job ad and to apply, please visit our FULL DESCRIPTION HERE.

Our members are invited to not only participate in our more than 125 racing events and boating lifestyle, but also to be a part of our rich history and enduring legacy. Founded in 1875, Chicago Yacht Club is one of the oldest and most respected yacht clubs in the world. Chicago Yacht Club is ranked on the top 10 list of U.S. yacht clubs by Platinum Clubs of America.

The Club is home to more than 1,400 members, including a winning America’s Cup skipper, Olympic medalists and hopefuls, and outstanding boaters of all types, from ages 4 to 100. The Club offers year-round activities for its diverse membership at two locations on the city’s shoreline, at Monroe and Belmont Harbors. We are recognized as a leader in sailing education, with one of the largest junior sailing programs in the United States.

The Club’s Main Dining Room at Monroe Station offers upscale dining and a menu featuring fresh, local ingredients. Belmont Station is a family-friendly venue for casual lunches and dinners and serves as a great location for hosting members’ private events. With 10,000 square feet of meeting space, Chicago Yacht Club is perfectly suited to host your social parties, office gatherings and everything in between.Whether you are a novice enrolled in our nationally recognized sailing school, or an “old salt” with seasoned sea legs, Chicago Yacht Club is sure to satisfy you on and off the water, whether it be wind, fuel or oars that propel you.

One Design Class Profile- WASZP

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By Airwaves writer Olivia Hennon

History and Mission
Since the launch of the WASZP in July 2016, the class has grown throughout the world with its accessible design and camaraderie among class members. Since the launch, over 1000 WASZP’s have been delivered to 44 countries as of 2020. Designer Andrew McDougall wanted to create a boat that was affordable and accessible, get new sailors into foiling, and change people’s lives. As many people began to fall away from the Moth One-Design because of its difficulty and expensive cost, the WASZP offers a simpler and more affordable option for sailors to purely enjoy sailing without the extra complications and hassle.

The Boat
The WASZP was designed to be safe and simple to launch, sail, and handle in order to maximize accessibility. It is a single hand, one-design foiler that is known to travel well. The ideal sailor weight is between 40-95 kg, as the hull is designed with a hollow nose area to cater to the weight of the sailor. Heavier sailors can bury the nose while simultaneously not generating extra drag while lighter sailors won’t lose waterline length. The WASZP is incredibly robust, travels well, and has a place for everyone in the class. Additionally, it has 3 modes that make for easy storage and allows for beginners to feel more comfortable in the boat. These modes include storage mode, learn mode, and race mode which each make modifications to the boat to meet sailors where they are in their sailing journey.

How to Get Involved
While the WASZP is based in Melbourne with racers all over the world, it is sailed in the United States. The most common locations where the WASZP is sailed in the USA is in Toms River, NJ, Charleston, SC, Newport, RI, San Francisco, CA, Oyster Bay, NY, Miami, FL, and Honolulu, HI. In order to get involved with the class, orders for boats may be made online at the WASZP official website. The WASZP class has a place for everyone!

WASZP CLASS USA

Events coming up in the USA:

WASZP Atlantic Coast Championship- Toms River, NJ- May 22nd-23rd 2021

Hampton Regatta- Hampton, VA- June 19th-20th 2021

Sandy Hook Regatta-Atlantic Highlands, NJ- September 25th-26th 2021

2021 US WASZP Nationals-Toms River, NJ- October 1st-3rd 2021

WASZP Swarm- Oyster Bay, NY- October 9th-10th 2021

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2021 Annapolis i420 Early Bird Regatta Report & Results

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Annapolis, MD, March 28 2021 — Annapolis Sailing School played host to the first-ever i420 Early Bird Regatta this past weekend, with 11 teams arriving from around the region to compete in this great one-design class. First off, this is one incredible venue; Annapolis Sailing School has a picture-perfect spot near Bembe Beach in Annapolis, and a killer beach launching site with tons of room and facilities. If you ever want to recommend sailing lessons to someone, put Annapolis SS on the top of your list! Also hosting was the new i420 team on the block the S1D Youth Sailing Team, and our very new and young players were very excited to have such great talent come and visit our new home! All competitors were greeted with gifts and goodies, including wick-dry technical shirts from North Sails and dry bags from Sail1Design, in lieu of trophies for the top finishers.

Most all teams arrived early to practice on Friday, and wow, what a day! The temperatures soared to 80 degrees and beautiful sun, but so did the wind speed… up to 35 knots… and although several brave teams went out, they realized that the only sail training to be had was more survival than anything else. The forecast for Saturday was a bit grim all week… very light-to-no wind, so we all crossed fingers.

Apparently that works! Saturday dawned with another beautifully sunny day, and around 930, a southerly made its way down the Bay and locked in, and we had 6 epic races in sun and 6-14 knots. We never really had to move marks more than about 50 yards, and PRO Jamie Gilman (St. Mary’s Seahawk ’06) orchestrated absolutely flawless racing from his luxury BRIG RIB. He also happens to be the areas BRIG dealer, and you should check out these incredible boats!

Sunday’s forecast also become ominous, with the possibility of T-storms and gusty winds. Well, we didn’t get that exactly, but we did battle a fog bank that would have made Maine residents proud. Again the RC fearlessly set out to sail, herding the i420 sailors into an open area, and again, almost miraculously, the fog lifted and allowed for 2 more awesome 8-19 knot races before teams went in to pack up and head home.

I hope all youth coaches and sailors consider the i420. This boat is an absolute blast to sail, and teaches so many great lessons about dinghy sailing, offering sailors almost unlimited improvement potential. It is not a difficult boat to sail at all, and there are a a lot of uninformed misconceptions out there, including how expensive the boat is (it isn’t), and how technical it is (it isn’t), and how few events there are (there are a lot more than you think). It is, (just ask our countries best college coaches and youth coaches) the gold-standard for youth sailing training, and that’s why it is the standard around the world, enjoyed by thousands of sailors.

Results? Sure. We had 8 great races for this regatta, and continuing their pretty amazing run, Luke Woodworth and Tommy Sitzmann won convincingly, winning most of the races. In second was the small-in-size but enormous-in-talent Ava Hurwitz with awesome crew Elle Sykes. These girls a not a big team at all, and their success shows how so many different weight ranges can be competitive in the i420 with proper tuning and mechanics. Both Elle and Luke are also great examples that in the i420 Class especially, crews (although they never get top billing) are absolute difference-makers; their athletic work in the front of the boat although often overlooked is a big key to team success.
In third overall and rounding out the podium, climbing up the leaderboard on the last day with a super-sharp 1-2 was Freddie Parkin and Thomas Whidden (that name sound familiar…;)). This team had their ups and downs this weekend, but showed on Sunday, in the windier conditions especially, that they are a force to reckoned with, and as young as they are they have a limitless future in sailing. For full results go HERE

One common denominator of the top four in this regatta, and in fact 5 of the top 6, is that they had “Outfit Sailing” next to their entry names. Outfit is coached by Lior Lavie, based in Coconut Grove, FL, and this team has had both enormous success and enormous impact on the US i420 Class. The Sail1Design Youth Team has learned a great deal from this incredible group of sailors, coaches and parents, and they are an wonderful credit to our youth sailing community. Well done!

Thanks to ALL for coming and hope to see you again soon!

 

Cal Yacht Club Opportunity! Enthusiastic and Skilled Sailing Coaches Wanted!

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California Yacht Club’s year-round Junior Sailing Program has its emphasis on racing. Our program utilizes the single-handed Optimist Dinghy for our younger participants and the double-handed Club Flying Junior or spinnaker equipped Club 420 for our older teen sailors. The Program meets on weekends and attends local, regional, and national regattas throughout the year. The program emphasizes focus on personal responsibility and the principles of Corinthian yachting excellence. These skills are highly valued at high schools with sailing programs and the best Colleges and Universities.Our Junior Sailing Calendar lists all events and practices. We will also send out weekly emails to keep everyone informed on what’s going on!

For more information, to see the job ad and to apply, please CLICK HERE!

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