By S1D Writer Tate Theodorsen Youth sailing has long been a vibrant and evolving aspect of the sport, but it now faces new challenges and opportunities as the landscape shifts. To explore these dynamics, we spoke with John Pearce, Youth Racing Director at US Sailing. With decades of experience as a sailor, coach, and leader, … 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
SailFast designs a unique line of apparel for people who love the wind and the water. We design innovative clothing that bridges the divide between performance and fashion. We also donate 10% of our profits to the fight against Leukemia and other blood cancers through a platform we created called 10% For A Cure – … Read More
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
The Next Generation All Carbon, One-Design Racer! The FARR 400 is an all new, 100% carbon fibre 40 ft. racing yacht that combines Grand-Prix level performance with innovative design details allowing easy, cost effective transportation anywhere in the world. The Farr 400 was specifically designed with 3 main objectives in mind: Unrivalled … 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
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Sail1Design is proud to announce our newest sponsor! Sponsors keep our free sailing industry jobs and sailing classifieds going. We are most grateful for their commitment to us, and we hope you will check them out and take advantage of the very cool product they offer to the one-design sailing community: The 1st … Read More
A Look at the Costs Involved With One-Design Regattas by Airwaves writer Jen Mitchell, [email protected] Brought to you by Mauri Pro Sailing In a down economy it only seems natural to re-evaluate where your spending is going. Airwaves decided to take a look at the costs involved in one-design regattas; travel, boat maintenance, etc. There … Read More