ICSA Team Race Rankings #2 Are Out! You can find the Open rankings HERE and the Women’s Rankings HERE. Open Rankings For this edition we welcomed Coach Annabell Carrington from the College of Charleston to our rankings panel, which already consisted of John Mollicone (Brown), Chris Klevan (Stanford), Charles Higgins (Tulane), and Brendan Feeney (Fordham). … Read More
By Airwaves Writer Taylor Penwell Photos © C A Hill Photo New Bedford Community Boating Center, Buzzards Bay, MA–June 14-18 The Community Boating Center in New Bedford hosted the 2017 505 North American Championship from June 14-18th. 25 teams sailed out of Fort Taber for the event. The four days of racing held very different … Read More
The 2017 Catalina 22 Nationals held at the Fort Worth Sailing Club from June 11th to the 15th was a success with three different fleets inside the championship. 20 boats competed in the Genoa Gold Fleet, 12 boats in the Genoa Silver Fleet, and boats from both of those fleets made up the 12 boat … Read More
By Airwaves Writer Taylor Penwell Edgewater Yacht Club, Cleveland, Ohio–June 15-18th 138 teams competed in the 37th Cleveland Race Week One-Design Weekend at the Edgewater Yacht Club. Four race circles, comprised of eleven fleets made up the racing. The Cleveland Race Week also included the Star Western Hemisphere Championship that started on Thursday June 15th. … Read More
By Airwaves Writer Taylor Penwell © Matías Capizzano Photos St. Thomas, US Virgin Islands–June 12-18th This past week the St. Thomas Yacht Club hosted its 25th Annual International Optimist Regatta, (IOR), presented by EMS (Electronic Merchant Systems) Virgin Islands along with the TOTE Maritime Clinic and Team Race Championship. 111 optimist sailors competed in the … Read More
Sail1Design is pleased to welcome a new team member and sponsor, Reliable Racing. RR has been around since 1965, supplying racing sports with great gear. For sailing, Reliable Racing specializes in and up-and-coming new product for dinghy sailing: sailing helmets. They also have great helmet covers (think your team’s logo) and sublimated stretch bibs as … Read More
By Airwaves writer Taylor Penwell June 10-11 –Susquehanna Yacht Club The 2017 Comet North American Championship was held on June 10 & 11 at the Susquehanna Yacht Club. It was a big success with fourteen Comets coming from Ohio, Pennsylvania, Maryland, New Jersey, Connecticut and Massachusetts. The conditions were challenging with the winds fluctuating between … Read More
This past weekend the J22 World Championship was held at the North Sea Regatta in Scheveningen, The Netherlands. Starting on May 30th and finishing on June 4th, 39 boats competed in the championship. Dutch J22 Class Chairman Rosemarijn Verdoorn had this to say about the World Championship, FIrst of all, it was an honor to … Read More
MOUNT PLEASANT, S.C. (June 2, 2017) – Today was the last day of the Gill Coed Dinghy National Championship, hosted by the College of Charleston. This is the final of three high caliber spring college sailing national championships that were run on the Cooper River in Charleston Harbor. After four days of intense competition … Read More
Sail1Design has been lucky to be part of some really great moments over the years, mostly when we take part in recognizing youth, high school, college, and one-design sailors. Reading nomination letters, hearing from our community about unsung heroes, sharing in the joy of the winners…… makes the whole Sail1Design project, now more than ten years in … Read More
Point Loma High School, located in San Diego, California, has been a force in high school sailing for a long time. Most recently, it seems the Pointers are at, or near, the top of most national-level leader-boards, most of the time. This year, the Point Loma Pointers put it all together, and collectively had an … Read More
A number of classes, including the Fireball and Flying Fifteen, have moved from 2:1 jib halyards to 1:1 systems. The reasoning behind this has been weight and windage, but it has doubled the load on the turning block in the mast. This also came at a time when the classes started using higher rig tensions, … Read More
J24 North American Championship Recap and Results The Houston Yacht Club hosted the J24 North American Championship this past weekend. 29 boats competed in the three-day event. Will Welles skippering Bogus won the regatta handily with a total of 22 points that included four 1st places in the ten races. Mike Ingham on Nautalytics finished … Read More