Sail1Design is very happy to announce that Lon Gundie is our new title sponsor of the High School Team of the Year Award. This award, modeled somewhat along the lines of college sailing’s Fowle Trophy, recognizes the best overall sailing team in the country. Lon Gundie supplies the performance sailing world with incredible technical base-layer … Read More
NEWPORT, R.I. (May 31, 2019) – At an awards ceremony following racing for the Gill College Sailing Coed National Championship at Sail Newport Sailing Center at Ft. Adams, the honors for the Marlow Ropes College Sailor of the Year, Robert H. Hobbs Sportsmanship Award sponsored by US Sailing and the Leonard M. Fowle Trophy for … Read More
NEWPORT, R.I. (May 31, 2019) – Today was the last day of the Gill College Sailing Coed National Championship, the final of three high caliber spring college sailing national championships that were run out of host site Sail Newport Sailing Center at Fort Adams by host school Brown University with support from Dartmouth College and … Read More
PORTLAND, ME (May 28, 2019) — SailMaine hosted the 2019 Baker Team Race Championship, right in downtown Portland, a beautiful location, and I believe the first time a HS National Championship has been held in Maine! 12 of the nations top teams battled it out on a nice southerly-Saturday, with winds ranging from 5-13 knots. … Read More
NEWPORT, R.I. (May 27, 2019) – Racing was completed today in the LaserPerformance Team Race National Championship in Newport Harbor out of host site Sail Newport Sailing Center in Fort Adams State Park. This is the second of three, spring college sailing national championships hosted by Brown University with the New England Intercollegiate Sailing Association … Read More
NEWPORT, R.I. (May 24, 2019) – Racing concluded today in the Sperry College Sailing Women’s National Championship hosted out of Sail Newport Sailing Center in Fort Adams State Park, in Newport, R.I. The regatta was hosted by Brown University with the New England Intercollegiate Sailing Association (NEISA) also supported by the University of Rhode Island. … Read More
Editor’s Note: It was very gratifying to review this article for publishing, as it made me recall the origins of this award. Way back in 2002, I owned “Quantum Sails Northeast” in Maine, and was running that business while coaching college sailing at Bowdoin. My loft was heavily invested in dinghy sails, and wanted to … Read More
Sail Sand Point, May, 12 2019 — (report courtesy of the ISSA)Twenty teams competed in the 2019 High School Doublehanded Nationals on May 11-12 in Seattle, WA. With racing out of Sail Sand Point on Lake Washington, defending champs Point Loma HS (San Diego, CA) dominated to win the title, led by A Division winners … Read More
Conference Championships Qualifies (and Eliminates) the Nation’s Top Teams as all eyes turn to Newport April 29, 2019, Written by Chris Klevan, Photos by Rob Migliaccio Conference Championships for Coed Fleet Racing across the nation spiked blood pressures and showcased the best in the country as the top teams advance to the Semi-Finals and some … Read More
Written by Chris Klevan Women’s Semifinals is mostly set with Coed Qualifiers looming… Last weekend held the Women’s Conference Championships for five of the seven conferences while Coed and Team Race Championships took place in the South-east and the Northwest conferences. On top of that, a competitive interconference regatta served as a tuneup with many … Read More
Written by Chris Klevan, All photos by Rob Migliaccio Brown wins the Women’s Team Race; Stanford and Navy show their depth in fleet racing Brown won the Women’s Team Race National Invitational, sailing away from the competition on home waters. The conditions were excellent for sailing and favored the fastest sailors- which Brown proved to … Read More
Setting the Table for the Laser Performance Team Race National Championship April 8, 2019, Written and edited by Chris Klevan Last week, 12 of the 16 team race teams featured at the Laser Performance Team Race National Championship were confirmed as conference championships were sailed in New England, the Mid Atlantic, South Atlantic and the … Read More
By Middlebury Head Coach Thomas Tucker Of the 41 registered teams in NEISA, the top 16 are given automatic berths to the New England Championships at the end of each April. The two remaining championship berths are contested in early April in the Spring NE Dinghy Tournament. The dinghy tournament is the most important regatta … Read More