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
Extreme 40‘s Racing Series Take off on Boston Harbor Day One of the Act Four: Extreme 40s Regatta greeted race teams with typical Boston Harbor conditions; puffy shifty winds that challenged teams sailing and tactical abilities to the utmost. The race course, situated on the south side of the harbor nestled against Fan Pier, featured … Read More
PRESS RELEASEFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEJune 23, 2011 Olympic Silver Medalist Scott Steele to Provide Free Coaching for J/24 ECCThe 2011 Hillman Capital Management J/24 East Coast Championship (ECC) is pleased to announce theaddition of another fine coach to assist competitors free of charge at this world class event. Olympic SilverMedalist Scott Steele will help to … Read More
JBoats annouced that they will begin, in 2012, producing a new J, the “J/70 Speedster,” and it is billed as a One-Design boat!! To learn more: http://www.jboats.com/j70/
Melges 24 Worlds Video on Sailgroove.org Sailgroove is producing daily highlights and interviews from the Melges 24 Worlds in Corpus Christi, TX, USA. Videos are posted each night after racing from Wednesday May 18 to Saturday May 21, 2011. All videos are and will be available at http://www.sailgroove.org/coverage/238746-Melges-24-Worlds-2011 Videos can be embedded into any webpage via … Read More
www.j24eastcoastchampionship.com PRESS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 12, 2011 North Sails’ Nick Turney to Provide Free Coaching for J/24 ECC The 2011 Hillman Capital Management J/24 East Coast Championship (ECC) is pleased to announce the addition of another fine coach to assist competitors free of charge at this world class event. Nick Turney, of North … Read More
Have a smartphone? Now you can get the ISAF Racing Rules of Sailing (RRS) on your Android or your iPhone – YOU-TACK!Pro, The Racing Sailor’s Illustrated Guide. You get: The Rules with Illustrations and Comments; 42 quizzes with 3D animations and a Scoreboard to track your answers; all the Signals and the International Flags; … Read More
J24 Fleet Going Techie, By Airwaves Editor Jen Vandemoer Mitchell The J24 East Coast Championship, which will be held in Annapolis, MD October 28-30, is going to be a modern event thanks to Mark Hillman, his company Hillman Capital Management and other supporting sponsors. Hillman has been competing for many years in the J24 class … Read More
By Airwaves Editor Jen Vandemoer Mitchell Match racing, called the fastest growing discipline in sailing, has many people captivated and a lot of people still trying to understand it. Most are familiar with match racing due to the renowned America’s Cup, which had its first challenge race in 1870. Match racing is a one-on-one … Read More
A parent comes to you as a sailing instructor with a child in tow. You give a furtive glance to the child, as usual you are hoping to make a connection. The child seems oddly unresponsive, and you realize he is avoiding eye contact. Meanwhile the parent is hurling acronyms at you: ASD,ASP, PDD-NOS, Autism Aspergers. They all mean … 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