Sail1Design is pleased to bring you our coach panel’s ICSA Team Race Rankings Update #3. Remember to click on the team’s ranking link to read Coach Panel Comments. Thanks to our panel: Chris Klevan (Stanford), Ken Legler (Emeritus), John Mollicone (Brown), Isaac Clark (U Penn), and Johnny Norfleet (Tufts). Women’s Rankings #3 Open Rankings #3
One Design Profile: J/24
By Tyler Colvin Introduction and History: The Start of an Empire In 1975, Rod Johnstone built a keelboat named Ragtime in his garage in Stonington, CT. Ragtime was the first J/24, a class that started the wildly successful J-Boats Empire and has grown into the world’s largest one design keelboat class. Since the class’ inception, … Read More
A First Impression of Sailing in Wellington, New Zealand
By Airwaves Writer at-large, Sara Morgan Watters After a 23 hour journey to Wellington, New Zealand just over a month ago, I was welcomed to the country’s capital city by overcast conditions and, as promised, a strong summer breeze. Some people compare windy Wellington, as it is known, to San Francisco for consistent and breezy … Read More
2014 J/70 Charleston Race Week Results and Reports
By Geoff Becker Team Helly Hansen: Skipper, Tim Healy, Tactician/Trimmer: Geoff Becker, Trimmer: Sam Stokes, Bow: Gordon Borges Day 2 3 races, 2 heats/race (races course 4, 4 legs and downwind finish) Wind 6-12 knots from the South, shifty again! Again, on Day 2 of Chareston Race Week 2014, three races (two heats per race) were sailed … Read More
Sail1Design's Team Race Rankings, 9 APRIL 2014!!
As qualifiers finished up this past weekend, the berths for Team Race Nationals in June were filled! Some of the usual heavy-hitters like Stanford, St. Mary’s, Roger Williams and Charleston secured their berths and some of the top spots in our rankings this week with victories at their conference qualifiers. Other regular powerhouses like Georgetown, … Read More
Sail1Design's Career Center: Find Your Sailing/Marine Industry Destiny!
Since 2007, Sail1Design has provided a vital, active Career Center and Job Board. Here, you can post your resume, search marine/sailing industry jobs, or post a job and find your next great employee. SAILING/MARINE INDUSTRY CAREER CENTER & JOB BOARD We offer sailing’s #1 Career Center and Job Board, always chock full of incredible sailing job … Read More
2014 Baldwin Cup Team Race Video Report
The Baldwin Cup Team Race was conceived in the fall of 2007 on a Tuesday afternoon conference call looking to reinvigorate the US Yacht Club Challenge. Staff Commodore Bill Palmer had recently returned from a trip back east and had witnessed the success of several east coast yacht club team racing events. The members on … Read More
SailFuture Sets Course Toward a Worthy Mission
By Airwaves writer Clinton Hayes For Founder and Executive Director Michael Long, SailFuture is built on personal experience. Having spent 2 years in and out of Florida’s juvenile justice system, his probation officer sent him from program to program, but nothing ever clicked. He continued down a pretty rough path until finally hitting rock bottom, … Read More
Sail1Design's All-New Sailing Calendar: Post Your Event!
S1D is pleased to unveil our vastly improved, all-new interactive sailing calendar, allowing our members and users to post their sailing events, link to Google Calendar, and more! Promote your regatta, clinic, or sailing-related event!!! On the calendar page, look for the green button that says “post your event” and the rest is easy! We … Read More
SSA to Host One-Design Demo Day!
SAVE THE DATE: 19 APRIL 2014 SSA Demo Day will feature over 20 boats from every one of SSA’s one design fleets and a few new boats that aren’t fleets yet, each one represented by their most enthusiastic sailors who can’t wait to take you out for a sail or talk about the boat. SSA … Read More
Sail1Design Launches Improved Airwaves Website!!
Hard at work behind the scenes, Sail1Design has been putting together an improved, new-look website, on a totally new web platform. Times change, so S1D & Airwaves put together what we feel is a more user-friendly, searchable, attractive, interactive site. While our Sailing Job Board & Career Center, and our Brokerage Marketplace won’t change at … Read More
Team One Newport and College Sailing Programs
When Team One Newport started in January of 1985, it launched one of the first College Sailing Discount programs. Team One Newport’s founder, Martha Parker, had raced in college on Bucknell’s club sport team and knew first-hand what gear was necessary for college sailing as well as how expensive this gear was. So she initiated … Read More
Sail Tuning with Andrew Kerr: Time to Power Up
By Andrew Kerr, North U. Coach, & guest writer for Airwaves Your team is sailing upwind and all is well , good speed and height on the boats around you , suddenly the boats stands up and the speed drops quickly as does the ability to point – “ net loss to the boat to weather … Read More