New from Waszp.com: INTRODUCING THE 7.5 SAIL The much-anticipated 7.5 sail is now available for purchase! Sailors can get their hands on the new rig by heading to the WASZP shop or contacting their WASZP Agent. The 7.5 uses the same bottom mast section as the 6.9 sail and comes in three striking colour options: … Read More
The Offshore Advantage: Why We are America’s #1 Sailing School News Flash: Offshore Sailing School is hiring! Offshore Sailing School is owned and operated by Steve and Doris Colgate. Their dedication to delivering the very best sailing education, in environments that make learning fun and rewarding, keep all of us at Offshore Sailing School passionately … Read More
#12 St. Mary’s College of Maryland showed that they’re the best women’s team in MAISA with an emphatic win at the MAISA Women’s Championship at the Naval Academy. Seniors Greer Wattson and Elizabeth Dennison put together an extremely impressive score-line with no race outside the top-7 and 8 race wins throughout the 15 race regatta. … Read More
Nutrition, it’s key to living a healthy lifestyle. However, a lot of the time we hear people talking more about their workouts and less about what they are eating. Having a healthy diet is even more important for our success out on the water than any workout you do. Don’t get me wrong working out … Read More
The Palm Beach Sailing Club is a private, not-for-profit organization formed in 1966.The objective of the club shall be to develop, encourage and stimulate interest in sailing in the Palm Beach County area, to promote fellowship and camaraderie among local and visiting sailors, and to offer sailing education and training to members and others. News Flash: … Read More
Greetings, sailing fans!!! We’re sending out an early 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 this year that Gill North America is our Exclusive Sponsor for … Read More
By Airwaves writer Taylor Penwell Juan Carlos Romero is one of the most accomplished and experienced coaches in the optimist class. Juan has been coaching for nearly 25 years between his home country of Ecuador and the United States. He has coached at many premier programs such as the Annapolis Yacht Club, St. Petersburg Yacht … Read More
April 16, 2017– The Women’s Pacific Coast Championship was held at UC San Diego over the weekend. What looked like champagne conditions were met with excellent sailing. Trailing after the first day of racing, the #6 Stanford Cardinal turned it around to take home the Championship. Stanford’s Senior Maeve White, with sophomore Meg Gerli, won … Read More
By Airwaves HS Reporter Camille White The MASSA District Championship in Kings Point, NY was a two day event in which 18 of the best teams from the Mid-atlantic region came to compete at the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy. The top four schools would qualify for Fleet Race Nationals at MIT on May 13-14. The … Read More
The Fowle Trophy, New England’s Team Race Championship was sailed on Mystic Lake, home of the Tufts University Jumbos. Forty degree weather and massive, unwieldy puffs greeted the sailors, Saturday morning. Appropriately, the feel of the regatta was that of a typical morning at West Kirby Yacht Club; with small courses, short on water, unusual … Read More
By Airwaves Writer Dillon Paiva The Baldwin Cup is a yacht club challenge type regatta hosted by Newport Harbor Yacht Club in Newport Beach California. This event is one of several regattas just like it that together make up a circuit of yacht club challenge team race regattas. Other regattas on the circuit include the … Read More
News from our sponsor, Selden: The Foiling Opti was figured out by Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg. Seldén provided the blocks and are happy to be a part of this hilarious happening taking Optimist sailing to a whole new level. Axel Rahm sailed and the Seldén Tech Department shot the video.
Brought to you by Dynamic Dollies Another two weeks have gone by and another batch of exciting team race regattas. Since our last rankings, we saw the major regattas: Jan T. Friis Trophy, Admiral Moore, Aaron Szambecki, and Lynne Marchiando. Things got shaken up at the top, bottom and all in between in this edition’s … Read More