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S1D Announces Team Racing Umpire School

UPDATE: Severn Sailing Association to hold “Team Race Winter League“, and in so doing, to launch the Umpire School! Umpires will get a chance to referee team race games and […]

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Chalk Talk Video-Team Race Conference Champs Predictions

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ICSA Team Race Rankings Update #3, 4/7/2015

The action is heating up! Yale holds the top spot, Charleston & Stanford round out the top three!! [yop_poll id=”6″]

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ICSA TEAM RACE RANKINGS #2 of Spring 2015!

Yale holds the top spot, followed by Boston College, and College of Charleston. Check out the latest rankings! [yop_poll id=”6″]

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ICSA TEAM RACE RANKINGS, 3/10/2015

  About Sail1Design Sail1Design is a grassroots organization, by sailors for sailors, dedicated to the one-design, youth, high school, college, and one-design sailing communities. Born in 2007, Sail1Design has grown […]

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Beating the Cold in the Spring Season

Lydia Whiteford, Airwaves Writer All photos taken by Tufts Sailing Coach Ken Legler As hard as it is to believe with the East Coast buried in snow, the spring season […]

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LaserPerformance Presents a National Invitational Series for High School Sailors

Portsmouth, RI – LaserPerformance is delighted to announce the LaserPerformance High School Invitational 2015. The inaugural event represents the first stop in an ongoing series to be held at different […]

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ICSA 2015 Team Racing Season Preview

By: Clinton Hayes(Stanford), Brendan Healy(Navy), Ward Cromwell(Charleston), Bill Healy(Yale) NEISA As always, New England features great depth in team racing. The big story in NEISA is Yale’s potential for a […]

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Staying Fit in the Off Season

By Airwaves writer Lydia Whiteford With all of the regattas over and Thanksgiving break behind us, college sailors all across America are officially done with their fall seasons. For the […]

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Building to the Future: How GCYSA and KO Sailing will help US Olympic Sailing

By Airwaves Writer Tyler Colvin   Technology adapts to the requirements of the people.  Sailing needed some excitement and so foils were born.  Occasionally however, there are advancements that outpace […]

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Balancing College with College Sailing

By Airwaves Writer Lydia Whiteford.  We’ve all heard the classic college tagline, “between sleep, studying, and having fun, you can only pick two.” When you are also a college athlete, […]

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A Life in One Day: What's it's Like to be a College Sailing Coach

By Airwaves writer John Storck Late August has always been a time of the year that I really enjoyed. Summer seems to ease off the throttle a bit. The temperature […]

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Looking Up at College Sailing: What's it Really Like?

 GETTING BEHIND THE BROCHURES… By Airwaves writer Emma White Over the past few years I attended several talks during clinics and regattas in which college coaches discuss and answer questions on […]

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2014 US Youth Sailing Championship Final Results

  C-420 Club 420 (36 boats) (top) Series Standing – 9 races scored Information is provisional and subject to modification Regatta results last updated: Thursday, August 14, 2014 1:13:35 PM CDT Click on […]

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S1D Team Profile: Youth J/24 Team USA

      By Airwaves Writer Sarah Lihan Most junior racing here in the US sticks to the tried and true youth classes—Lasers and Radials, Club 420’s, maybe a handful […]

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LaserPerformance Launches The Collegiate Cup

August 11, 2014 LaserPerformance Collegiate Cup Challenges Best College Sailors From Around the World LaserPerformance is proud to announce the launch of the LaserPerformance Collegiate Cup (LPCC). The LaserPerformance Collegiate […]

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420 Class: Club, Collegiate = Win, Win

420 Class: Club Versus Collegiate   By Airwaves writer Tyler Colvin As one of the most highly utilized youth training boats in North America, the 420 was designed in the mid […]

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CJ Buckley Team Race Regatta Report

Remembering CJ Buckley East Greewich, RI (July 30, 2014) — The 12th annual CJ Buckley Team Race for the c420 class Team Racing Nationals was sailed out of Goddard park […]

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Cornell Sailing Takes the Next Step

ITHACA, N.Y. – The sport of women’s sailing at Cornell University has been elevated from club status to a varsity team, Andy Noel, the Meakem*Smith Director of Athletics and Physical […]

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Meet the Youth Sailing Exchange, 2014

Bridging culture through the mutual love of sailing, the goal of the Youth Sailing Exchange (YSE) is for young competitive sailors to experience, first hand, life abroad. By living with […]

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