This comes from www.collegesailing.org Monday, April 28 – Conditions were challenging at the 2025 College Sailing Women’s Team Race Championship. Racing had to be cut off on Saturday as gusts measured above 40 knots and multiple capsizes made continuing the Round of 12 too dangerous. The Yale University Bulldogs and the Stanford University Cardinal ended the day … Read More
Shared from the New York Times, this report uncovers an alarming situation at Guanabara Bay, the upcoming site of the 2016 Summer Olympic Games. Unless something changes, sailors may well face dangerous health concerns while competing in the polluted waters of Guanabara Bay in Rio. Sailors have reported animal caracasses floating in the water, horribly … Read More
The 2014 College Nationals, just around the corner, will feature this year for the first time, the all-new LaserPerformance Z-420. This boat is a more modern and thoughtful upgrade from the club 420, adding new ideas to a boat originally designed in, gulp, 1959. Time will tell if this boat can meet the reliability and … Read More
By Airwaves writer Andrew Kerr This article takes a look at the important elements of rounding the windward mark and offset mark, in this article we will look at the boat handling skills a team needs to practice & develop, in a future article we will look at tactics we can use at these marks. … Read More
Vice Commodore and Chairman of RHADC Sailing Committee Neil Redburn commented “This is the future of junior sailing if we are serious about increasing participation” The Royal Hamilton Amateur Dinghy Club hosted what will likely go down as a “legendary” O’Pen BIC North American Championships. Sailors traveled from as far as Hawaii and France to … Read More
The Vanguard 15 Class in conjunction with Sail1Design will once again sponsor a Grand Prix Team Racing Series. The inaugural 2013 season saw great success with 20 teams scoring series points and the Rhode Island Pistols taking the series title. This year will feature a brand new event, the Buzzards Bay Regatta Team Race. This … Read More
By Geoff Becker Skipper: Will Welles Tactician: Geoff Becker Trimmer: Emory Williams Bow: Collin Leon Day 3 2 races (Race 5, 4 legs…Race 6, 5 legs) Wind 10-15 knots from the West, with gusts up to 20 knots. Building west winds provided some excitingly puffy and shifty conditions for the final … Read More
By Airwaves writer & Brown U. sailing team member Lydia Whiteford The entire spring season, and really the entire year in college sailing, has been progressing towards this: teams all over the country have had or will have in the next week or so the qualifying regatta that will get them to nationals. The college … Read More
Follow Up on Luke Muller by Airwaves writer Grace Lucas The past couple of months have been a blur for most high school sailors who are seniors – trying to cram in college visits, time for applications, and schoolwork into a very short period of time; however, it … Read More
By Andrew Kerr Picture yourself on port tack, going fast – with a wall of starboard tackers coming at you that you can barely see but you know their bows are charging at you! Your team communicates well and is all on the same page, you cross the first 3 starboard tackers and then do … Read More
By Clinton Hayes A Monumental Step Forward for the 49er Class While clicking through the usual sailing media outlets, I came across something this week that deserves some more attention. In what I see as a truly revolutionary step,the 49er class has announced that they are moving forward with their “theater style” racing for the … Read More
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
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