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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Sail1Design is proud to announce this year’s recipient of our Coach of the Year Award, CHRIS DOLD. We choose from reader nominations, and while we had many great submissions, Chris’s stood out. Below is part of the note sent in by Chris’s nominator: “My nomination for coach of the year is Chris Dold. Chris is currently the High … Read More
The 420 Midwinter Championship is arguably the most competitive 420 regatta on the circuit. Each year, teams from all over the country make their way to Jenson Beach, Florida over President’s Day weekend to battle it out. This is a particularly challenging event for teams from the north who have not been training on a … Read More