Sailing News Articles

By Elizabeth Dudley Sunday April 29th marked the end of the 2012 USODA KO Optimist Team Trials hosted this year by the Brant Beach Yacht Club in Brant Beach, New Jersey. 186 optimist sailors from around the country came to vie for a chance to represent the United States at the IODA World Championships, the … Read More

04/09/2012 For Immediate Release     Warren, RI. – Zim Sailing is pleased to announce that its already highly successful product line of Optimist, C420 and CFJ will expand to include the Byte CII dinghy. In 1996 the Byte was the first centerboard class recognized by ISAF. In 2004 the CII rig was developed and … Read More

By Margaret Boehm The second time was the charm for Chicagoan and Team USA member Bob Willis. After not making the U.S Olympic Team in 2008, Willis changed his training style and went full-throttle into his campaign for the London 2012 Olympics. After three long years of training, Willis was named a member of Team … Read More

By Martha Pitt Over the past few years, match racing has really sprung up on the scene and taken the spotlight for one design sailors – the sport has been added to the Olympics on the women’s side, added to College Sailing as the Sloop Championship, and with new efforts in media promotion the America’s … Read More

By Airwaves writer Elizabeth Dudley We are right in the middle of the spring sailing season, and even as I sit in the warm Maryland weather of March, I can still remember the cold New England spring practices and regattas.  The ones where you arrive on site and all you think is, “Really? Why do … Read More

By Martha Pitt Every year, the US Sailing Center in Martin County, Florida hosts one of the most competitive 420 regattas in the country – the 420 Midwinter Championship.  The country’s top junior sailors travel to the hopeful warmth of Florida sun to compete in the three day regatta over President’s Day weekend.  This year, … Read More

By Martha Pitt Last month, 120 teenage sailors from around the country made their way to Long Beach, California to compete in the 2012 US Sailing ISAF Youth World Qualifiers.  The regatta took place in 29er skiffs, International 420s, Laser Radials, and Techno 293s and spanned over three days of scheduled racing. Though the event … Read More

By Elizabeth Dudley, Airwaves writer   A 7th grader at Buckingham Brown  and Nichols school in Cambridge, Massachusetts, blue fleeter Henry Marshall is the overall Opti winner for the 2011 Orange Bowl hosted by Coral Reef Yacht Club in South Florida.  Beating out second place by only two points, and third place by only three, … Read More