On June 13, 2025, West Coast Sailing marks its 20th anniversary. Two solid decades of fun. It’s been a wild ride since we started in ‘05. To summarize it all would be impossible. There have been so many memories, regattas, events, and emotions of all kinds! For our 20th year, I want to attempt to … Read More
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
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
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
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
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
The Beverly Yacht Club seeks a Junior Program Director for Summer, 2021. This role will work in conjunction with the waterfront operations including launch and committee boat operations, club sailboat, powerboat fleets, their storage and maintenance, the waterfront and committee boat managers, and management of waterfront assets. The Jr. Program Director works closely with BYC … Read More
Rob Deane and ChesX Want One Thing: To Get Everyone on The Water Interview by Connor Olson “If we don’t fit the sport, we’ll change the sport.” Let’s face it…most people don’t have the opportunity to take a stroll into their back yard, pull out their boat, and hop on the water for an afternoon … Read More
By guest writer Mariah Rule Norfolk, VA – Ninety boats from the east coast and beyond competed at Norfolk Yacht and Country club for the ILCA Atlantic Coast Championship Regatta 19-20 September. Once each participant cleaned the C-19 screening process, an INTENSE world class regatta was provided. The two day, six race regatta saw a consistent 19 … Read More