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Airwaves Career Center: Hampton Yacht Club is Hiring for Summer 2021!
Hampton Yacht Club has a rich history of producing highly talented sailors including Steve Hunt, Gary Bodie, Chris Behm and many more. Do you have the coaching potential to help us produce the next generation of championship level athletes or the patience and energy to teach the skill fundamentals of our sport to youth sailors? … Read More
Sponsor News: Optimist Quick Tip— Sprit Tension is the Key!
When you think about it, your Optimist sail has a really big job to do; it has to have a great shape in really light wind, when most sailors wish they wouldn’t run a race, and it has to also hold its shape all way to 20 knots +, when some other sailors wish they … Read More
Airwaves Career Center Spotlight: Corpus Christi Yacht Club Sailing Director
Exciting news! CCYC is hiring for a full time, salaried position, coordinating a Development Program for youth sailors in the Corpus Christi area, specializing in Optimist, Radial, Laser and Club 420. Coaches Texas A&M CC Collegiate Sailing Team. Also includes occasional adult private sailing lessons. For more information and to apply, please see our job … Read More
Crew Communication in Team Racing: How to Optimize Your In-Boat Dialogue to Make Plays Happen
By Airwaves writer Lucas Masiello Team racing adds an incredible amount of complexity to sailing tactics. While everything from fleet racing strategy applies to a team race, the tactics and what is important on the racecourse is very different. Because of this, as sailors, we need to augment our conversations from a fleet race mentality … Read More
A Layman’s Guide to Basic Sailing Meteorology: How to Use Weather Patterns and Geography to Improve Your Racing Strategy
By Airwaves writer Lucas Masiello As sailors, we participate in a sport that is uniquely dependent on the weather. Everything from wind shifts to puffs and lulls is all products of both large-scale and local meteorological factors. However, aside from offshore racers and elite level course racers, not too many sailors know what is going … Read More
S1D Marketplace: Tech Dinghies Manufactured by Whitecap Composites in 2011 and 2012
2020 i420 Mid-Atlantic Championship Report & Results
18 October 2020, Gunpowder River, MD — The very first i-420 Mid-Atlantic Championship was held on 17-18 October at the new “Chesapeake Experience“, a community sailing venue E/NE of Baltimore on the Gunpowder River. This a fantastic sailing venue! Saturday the fleet had to wait a bit, but the forecasted northerly came in around 1130, … Read More
Profiles in Pro Sailing: Zeke Horowitz
By Airwaves Senior Writer Taylor Penwell Zeke Horowitz is a familiar name in the sailing world dating back to his junior sailing days, college and now as a member of the North Sails One Design team. Zeke attended The College of Charleston in South Carolina where he was selected as an Honorable Mention All-American twice, … Read More
Airwaves Career Center Spotlight: Waterfront Program and Sailing Director
The Snipe Atlantic Coast Championship: Good Times, Great Class!
By Airwaves writer Lucas Masiello This weekend, I had the opportunity to sail the Snipe Atlantic Coast Championships at Severn Sailing Association in Annapolis, Maryland. The Snipe class, a 16 foot, doublehanded dinghy, has active fleets all around the world and offers competitive, post-collegiate dinghy racing at the highest levels. The complexity of the boat … Read More
Jet 14
Designed and first built in the 1950’s, Jet-14’s have been crafted as a high performance, spinnaker rigged, 2 person dinghy available at a marginal cost. Their simple rigging, planing capability, and stability make it ideal for all sailor levels and a variety of wind conditions. Over 1160 Jet-14s have been built and compete in several … Read More
2020 i420 Atlantic Coast Championship Results & Report
Indian Harbor Yacht Club, CT — October 4 2020 As most clubs on the northeast coast of the US started to ramp back and close down for the long winter months, Indian Harbor YC dialed up one more beautiful weekend of weather for the International 420 Atlantic Coast Championship (and also hosted the … Read More