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Portland Yacht Club is Hiring!!

Portland Yacht Club, Falmouth, Maine, seeks one 420 Race Team Coach and one Opti Race Team Coach. Coach orientation week begins June 15th and the post-season wraps up on August […]

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ICSA News #1: Harvard, Yale Look Strong Season Begins

The in-conference half of the season has concluded as conferences square off at two major inter-conference regattas in New England along with the women showcase qualifiers September  30, 2019 Written […]

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S1D Marketplace Spotlight: Nautivela i420 For Sale

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S1D Welcomes Newest Partner, Lon Gundie

Sail1Design is thrilled to announce our newest partner, and Title Sponsor of our High School Team of the Year Award, LON GUNDIE!!  We sat down and caught up with them […]

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Airwaves Career Center Spotlight: Waterfront Program Director

Norfolk Yacht & Country Club seeks a full-time Waterfront Program Director. Norfolk Yacht & Country Club is a warm and welcoming Club where its member families and guests have unique […]

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ICSA NEWS: All-new Partnership Offers Discounts on Coaching RIB’s to College Sailing Teams!

Professional Boats, authorized representative of Tornado Boats (Denmark) it’s proud to be sponsors of the Intercollegiate Sailing Association (ICSA). Based on this alliance, we offer a discount to all ICSA affiliated colleges and universities between 8 and […]

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Profiles in Pro Sailing: Tomas Dietrich’s Fearless Olympic Dream

S1D’s Pearson Potts caught up with Tommy Dietrich, a well-known and very well loved Optimist/Laser coach here in the US, and spent some time chatting about sailing, Olympic dreams, and […]

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S1D 30-Day Fitness Burpee Challenge!

Hard to believe the summer sailing season is coming to an end as we approach Labor Day this weekend. We hope you had an excellent summer sailing season! Sometimes summer […]

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Ken Legler: A Jumbo’s Jumbo & His Priceless Contributions to our Sailing World

By Airwaves writer Pearson Potts You may not know it, but somewhere in his collection, Ken Legler probably has a photo of you on the water. Most likely, he also […]

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2019 US Team Racing Championship (Hinman) Results & Report

NEWPORT BEACH, Calif. (Sunday, August 18) – The historic U.S. Team Racing Championship wrapped up on Sunday afternoon after three spectacular days of racing in Newport Harbor. The 2019 U.S. Team […]

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Eckerd College is Hiring!

Eckerd College is currently seeking applicants for the Assistant Intercollegiate Coach position.  This is a full-time position. The Assistant Sailing Coach is responsible for assisting the Head Sailing Coach with […]

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2019 US Sailing Junior National Championships Report, Final Results

Race Day 3, Sunday August 11 Full results can be found HERE The final day of the US Sailing Chubb Junior National Championships provided all the excitement of a contested […]

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2019 US Sailing Junior National Championships Report, Day 1

Redwood City, CA,  –Friday August 9 By Charles Barclay Race Day 1:  For complete results click HERE The US Sailing Chubb Junior National Championships draws sailors from all regions of […]

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29er World Championship Results

Gdynia, Poland, 8/3/2019 — The 2019 29er World Championship was held from 26 July to 03 August this year in Gdynia, Poland, and featured 175 teams from around the world. […]

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Profiles in Pro Sailing: Back to the Future with Chris Snow

After a vastly successful & enduring career in the sailmaking business, most of it with North Sails, Chris Snow now moves on to pursue new challenges. Chris has been atop […]

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2019 Club420 National Championship Results

The 2019 c420 National Championship was held at Sail Newport 22-24 July 2019. Below are the top 12; for a list of full results, you can view them HERE

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2019 World Youth Sailing Championship Results: Americans Claim Gold in Girls 420 & Girls 29er

Gdynia, Poland, 21 JULY 2019 — Team USA finished 3rd overall in the World Youth Sailing Nation’s Cup (same finish position for our World Optimist Team this year too), and […]

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Club 420 Class Hull Conformity Update & Response from PS2000

In an effort to provide information to our community, below is a press release from Sturgis Boat Works regarding the recent issue with PS2000 club420’s and their subsequent de-certification. Sail1Design […]

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Greens Farms Academy is Hiring a Head Sailing Coach!

Greens Farms Academy is Westport, CT based K-12 private school looking for an experienced Varsity High School Sailing Coach. The team competes in the Fairfield league of NESSA and consists […]

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2019 Optimist World Championship Results & Report

Antigua– Chosen by virtue of their top finishes in the USODA Team Trials this past spring, American sailors Tommy Sitzmann, Samara Walshe, Jack Redmond, Gil Hackel, and Thommie Grit traveled […]

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