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 Andrew Kerr What is heavy air? For each team this can vary depending on the experience level aboard – but for most teams it is about 20 knots of wind and above – especially in open unprotected water when the seas have a chance to build and are influenced by the current. Be … Read More
The drawing board: Over the past two and a half years the collegiate and post collegiate market has changed quite a bit. While other companies worked to freshen up the 420 the Zim team was not content to put a new deck on a boat designed in 1959. These introductions are not new, but based … Read More
Check out our last rankings and coaches poll, Coach Healy called it! https://www.sail1design.com/college-team-race-rankings/ St. Mary’s City, Md. (June 2, 2014) – Today was the third and final day of the APS Team Race National Championship on the St. Mary’s River at St. Mary’s College of Maryland. This event is the second of three collegiate sailing … Read More
Annapolis, Md. (May 30, 2014) – Today was the last day of racing for the Sperry Top-Sider Women’s National Championship on the Severn River at the U.S. Naval Academy. Eighteen women’s collegiate teams raced for the Gerald C. Miller Trophy and Dartmouth College came out the victor for the second year in a row. … Read More
Selden Mast …for Sailing; and for Summer Greetings! Allow us to introduce ourselves. We are Selden Mast Inc.; your connection to the Selden Group. For over 50 years, Selden is proud to have manufactured the most durable and reliable sailing spars in the world. Located in Charleston, South Carolina, Selden Mast Inc. is the largest … Read More
The US Sailing Team Sperry Top-Sider has released Episode 2 of their video project “Rising Tide”, titled “Youth Infused” which focuses on the younger members of the team including Annie Haeger, Briana Provancha, Charlie Buckingham, and Caleb Paine. Check out the new video with some great footage from the Sailing World Cup Hyères in France, … Read More
Team One Newport is proud to be the Official Merchandising partner for The Newport Bermuda Race. Having been in the sailing outfitters business for thirty years, we have the expertise where it counts. We are sailors, so we know what sailors need for offshore racing and what they want for when they are on … Read More
Sail1Design ICSA Team Race Rankings Nationals are upon us! Teams across the country have been practicing all season, and we are down to the final 16 teams that have qualified in their conferences to compete for ICSA’s APS Team Race Nationals Championship for the Walter C. Wood Trophy. The pool of teams this year is … 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