Sailing News Articles

J24 Fleet Going Techie, By Airwaves Editor Jen Vandemoer Mitchell The J24 East Coast Championship, which will be held in Annapolis, MD October 28-30, is going to be a modern event thanks to Mark Hillman, his company Hillman Capital Management and other supporting sponsors. Hillman has been competing for many years in the J24 class … Read More

  By Airwaves Editor Jen Vandemoer Mitchell Match racing, called the fastest growing discipline in sailing, has many people captivated and a lot of people still trying to understand it.  Most are familiar with match racing due to the renowned America’s Cup, which had its first challenge race in 1870.  Match racing is a one-on-one … Read More

A parent comes to you as a sailing instructor with a child in tow.   You give a furtive glance to the child, as usual you are hoping to make a connection.  The child seems oddly unresponsive, and you realize he is avoiding eye contact. Meanwhile the parent is hurling acronyms at you:   ASD,ASP, PDD-NOS, Autism Aspergers. They all mean … Read More

College and Olympic Sailing Response, by John Vandemoer, head varsity sailing coach at Stanford University This is the fourth in an AirWaves Series on Youth-to-College-to-Olympic sailing. Enjoy! Brought to you by Mauri Pro Sailing College sailing is absolutely a path to Olympic sailing, is it right for everyone? Probably not, but that is what’s great … Read More

This is the third in an AirWaves Series on Youth-to-College-to-Olympic sailing. Enjoy! After posting a quick comment to Joe Morris’ piece in Sail1Design I was invited to read Kenny Legler’s “part two” piece on the subject and then expand on my first posting into something a bit more formal.   Well, here goes. Firstly I find … Read More

This is the second in an AirWaves Series on Youth-to-College-to-Olympic sailing. Enjoy! Olympic Sailing or College Sailing (If you have not read the Airwaves piece below this post, you may want to read that one first. This piece by Tufts coach Ken Legler was written in response to Joe Morris’s opening essay on this topic.) … Read More

Raffle to Support Traditions Build Winners Documentary You can go to almost any yacht club in the world and when you ask people about their sailing history, chances are that at some point in their lives they sailed as Snipe.  If you ask those over 60 it’s a virtual certainty that some of their earliest … Read More

Brought to you by Mauri Pro Sailing By Jen Vandemoer Mitchell, Airwaves Senior Writer        Being a sailor, living in Minnesota is not the easiest thing to do.  Sailing season is pretty short here as the water is frozen from December to April (not to mention the air is pretty icy too), however snowkiting, … Read More

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  The Devon Yacht Club The Devon Yacht Club is a 106 year old private club in Amagansett, NY. It has a range of member boats- from lasers, sunfish, 420’s, optimist, Alerions and cruisers. In the season the club runs races most weekends weather permitting! The club hosts regattas and outside sailing events.   Amagansett, … Read More

by David G. Bryan Presented by Mauri Pro Sailing *David Bryan has been the General Manager at the Boston Sailing Center for 22 years, and has numerous sailing accolades including winning the Mallory Cup in 2002.  He steps out of his usual role to provide some insight for Airwaves readers on getting that “temporary” job. … Read More