S1D is pleased to have Zig Sailing Insider join our team!! Welcome!!! Zig Sailing Insider is a membership-based platform founded by veteran sailor Elizabeth Kratzig in 2024. With over a decade of experience running a luxury travel agency, Elizabeth recognized the growing need for specialized regatta logistics support for sailors. Zig Sailing Insider offers curated insights … Read More
July 13 – July 14, 2019 Hampton, Virginia NOTICE OF RACE RULES & ANNOUNCEMENTS 1.1 The regatta will be governed by The Racing Rules of Sailing 2017-2020. 1.2 US Sailing Prescriptions to RRS 63.2 and 63.4 will not apply. 1.3 This event is designated a Clean Regatta by the Sailors for the Sea Organization, http://www.sailorsforthesea.org/, … Read More
Story Courtesy of Optiworld St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands. Dialing in the right combination of scores proved the secret to success for Team USA Worlds, who won the TOTE Maritime Team Racing Championships on Thursday. The Championships are one of a trio of events sailed this week out of the St. Thomas Yacht Club (STYC) … Read More
Press Release from Quantum Sails: On Monday, June 3, 2019, Quantum Sails powered the groundbreaking ClubSwan 36 for its official launch and first round of sea trials. Quantum Sails is proud to be involved in making this boat-of-firsts fly, and in helping Nautor’s Swan disrupt the world of sailing with this new one-design class aimed … Read More
By Airwaves writer Pearson Potts– As dinghy team racing has lulled in recent years in the U.S., young, post-college sailors have substituted dinghies for inter-yacht club keelboat team racing. There is a circuit of roughly 30 events each year between yacht clubs in the northeast for varying levels of crews and skippers. Unfortunately, those who … Read More
NEWSFLASH! Adam Werblow to join Zim Sailing! Scroll down to learn more. By Airwaves writer Pearson Potts Picture this: it’s 2008, you wake up your job laid you off and it’s the height of America’s most devastating economic recession. What would a reasonable man do? Of course, one would start a business. Steve Perry, CEO … Read More
Sail1Design is very happy to announce that Lon Gundie is our new title sponsor of the High School Team of the Year Award. This award, modeled somewhat along the lines of college sailing’s Fowle Trophy, recognizes the best overall sailing team in the country. Lon Gundie supplies the performance sailing world with incredible technical base-layer … Read More
NEWPORT, R.I. (May 31, 2019) – At an awards ceremony following racing for the Gill College Sailing Coed National Championship at Sail Newport Sailing Center at Ft. Adams, the honors for the Marlow Ropes College Sailor of the Year, Robert H. Hobbs Sportsmanship Award sponsored by US Sailing and the Leonard M. Fowle Trophy for … Read More
Greetings, sailing fans!!! We’re sending out our annual call this year for nominations for the prestigious Coach of the Year Award. In true grass-roots fashion, we pick the ultimate winner only from nominees supplied by you, our readers. We are thrilled also to announce that again, Gill North America is our Exclusive Sponsor for this award, … Read More
NEWPORT, R.I. (May 31, 2019) – Today was the last day of the Gill College Sailing Coed National Championship, the final of three high caliber spring college sailing national championships that were run out of host site Sail Newport Sailing Center at Fort Adams by host school Brown University with support from Dartmouth College and … Read More
PORTLAND, ME (May 28, 2019) — SailMaine hosted the 2019 Baker Team Race Championship, right in downtown Portland, a beautiful location, and I believe the first time a HS National Championship has been held in Maine! 12 of the nations top teams battled it out on a nice southerly-Saturday, with winds ranging from 5-13 knots. … Read More
NEWPORT, R.I. (May 27, 2019) – Racing was completed today in the LaserPerformance Team Race National Championship in Newport Harbor out of host site Sail Newport Sailing Center in Fort Adams State Park. This is the second of three, spring college sailing national championships hosted by Brown University with the New England Intercollegiate Sailing Association … Read More
NEWPORT, R.I. (May 24, 2019) – Racing concluded today in the Sperry College Sailing Women’s National Championship hosted out of Sail Newport Sailing Center in Fort Adams State Park, in Newport, R.I. The regatta was hosted by Brown University with the New England Intercollegiate Sailing Association (NEISA) also supported by the University of Rhode Island. … Read More