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
Sail1Design is pleased to announce our newest sponsor and team member, Farr Yacht Design/Farr Yacht Sales. We are also very excited to introduce the newest member of the Farr sailing team, the B/One. I had the pleasure yesterday of watching one sail in the first Annapolis Frostbite Series race, and the boat looks fast, powerful, … Read More
Brought to you by Farr Yacht Sales Martha Pitt Three years ago, Team Extreme won the 2009 US Sailing Team Racing Championship for the Hinman Trophy; a few weeks ago, they repeated that feat and became the 2012 Hinman Trophy winners for a second time! The team lead the event through the entire weekend, … Read More
By Airwaves Writer Zach Brown Within the community of sailing there exists a wealth of knowledge on the subject of running an Olympic campaign, but it is difficult to access that information and formulate a plan that fits an individual’s unique situation. The goal of this article is to supply sailors with the tools … Read More
By: Martha Pitt A few weekends ago, two championships were held on back-to-back weekends and on opposite coasts – the US Women’s Match Racing Championship was sailed out in San Francisco Bay, CA and the following weekend the US Match Racing Championship took place in Marblehead, MA – and for the first time in … Read More
Bob Adam – Zim Sailing As the summer wraps up, programs quickly transition their thoughts towards their needs for next summer. These discussions typically revolve around what to do with the fleet. Do we patch our boats to “squeak” one more year out of them? Do we make them look all pretty to sell them? … Read More
By Martha Pitt Every year, junior sailors from around the country compete in their regional qualifiers to qualify for US Sailing’s prestigious Chubb Junior Championships. The championship event includes sailors in singlehanded, doublehanded, and triplehanded boats for the Smythe, Bemis, and Sears Trophies. The event encourages nationwide program development, allowing kids from each … Read More
By Airwaves writer Elizabeth Dudley Along with Match Racing, this summer, I had the pleasure of adding yet another new sailing experience to my growing list: racing at night. I had two overnight races on my schedule: the race to Solomons Island and the Governors Cup, both of which originated in Annapolis and were 54 … Read More
Editors Note: We would like to welcome Zach Brown as our newest member to the Airwaves team. Please look for his column here often on Sail1Design’s Airwaves Newsletter. You can read Zach’s bio a the bottom of this article. Please use our comment feature at the bottom of the article also to share your thoughts, … Read More
By Vince Casalaina The Red Bull Youth America’s Cup regatta is scheduled for August/September 2013, in San Francisco, during the heart of the 34th America’s Cup racing season and teams are already lining up to compete. The American Youth Sailing Force is one of those teams. Based in San Francisco, the AYSF team represents the highest … Read More
By Airwaves Editor Martha Pitt Last month, seventy-six junior young women from around the country traveled to Lake Minnetonka to compete in the annual regatta for the Ida Lewis Trophy, US Sailing’s Junior Women’s Doublehanded Championship event. The six-day event featured short seminars for the girls, educational and social events each evening, two days … Read More
By Airwaves writer Elizabeth Dudley I would consider myself a “well-versed” sailor. I have logged countless hours on dinghies and increasing hours on keelboats, both racing and cruising, fleet racing and team racing. But a few weeks ago, I was the given the opportunity to experience my sport in a way that was completely new … Read More
By: Judith Krimski It takes a monumental team effort to design and build the winged sails that grace the AC45 and AC72. When Team Oracle decided to go with the winged sails for the 34th America’s Cup they tapped Rhode Island native Scott Ferguson, a naval architect and veteran designer of America’s Cup competitions and … Read More