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Thinking about Sailing in College? Check Out These 10 Tips Straight from College Coaches.

By Maggie Lumkes   Photo courtesy of Franny Kupersmith With an abundance of schools and sailing programs to choose from, many junior sailors don’t know what to expect at the […]

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2nd Annual Neill Advanced Sailing Clinic Completed with Success

2nd Annual Neill Advanced Sailing Clinic Completed with Success, sponsored by Sail1Design –Martha Pitt This year marks the 2nd Annual Neill Advanced Sailing Clinic, hosted by the Chicago Yacht Club […]

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ICSA National Dinghy Championship Final Results

Dinghy National Championship Texas June 6-8, 2012 National Championship Regatta FJ Score summary Order by: AllAB # School Team A B TOT 1 Georgetown University Hoyas 71 66 137 2 Roger […]

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2012 ICSA Team Race National Championship Results

 WINS!     http://2012nationals.collegesailing.org/team-race-results/

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ICSA Women's National Championship FInal Results

Sperry Top-Sider Women’s Finals Texas May 31 – June 3, 2012 National Championship Regatta FJ Race by race # Team Div. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 […]

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Point Loma Wins US High School Sailing National Championship!

http://www.hssailing.org/results/2012/results.html 2012 Mallory Trophy – Final Results D. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 TOT 1 […]

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EIGHTEEN TEAMS QUALIFY FOR COLLEGE SAILING’S NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP FINALS

From: [email protected]   Annapolis, MD (May 13, 2012) – Thirty-six college sailing teams descended on the U.S. Naval Academy this weekend for the Intercollegiate Sailing Association’s (ICSA) National Championship Semi-Finals […]

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ICSA TEAM RACE RANKINGS, Updated 4/26/2012

  By Sail1Design’s Martha Pitt:  For the first time in our rankings this year, the top four spots are held by teams in four different conferences! Though there hasn’t been […]

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ICSA TEAM RACE RANKINGS, Updated 4/12/2012

YALE BACK ON TOP “The Yale Bulldogs are back where they began the season, atop the ICSA Team Race Rankings, with 2 very strong finishes at the SNETR and the […]

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ICSA TEAM RACE RANKINGS, Updated 3/29/2012

“In the third set of rankings this spring, Georgetown hangs onto the top spot for the second time.  Their collection of strong sailors has made them tough to beat.  Climbing […]

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Volunteer Coaches-Unsung Heroes of College Sailing

Interview with Villanova’s Matthew Newborn By Margaret Boehm Matthew Newborn, the volunteer coach for Villanova University, has lots to be proud of in his first season. The team has gained […]

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Substitutions in College Sailing, by Ken Legler

By Ken Legler, Head Sailing Coach, Tufts University In other kinds of sailboat racing substitutions of personnel is rare.  College sailing is a team sport and some limits do exist.  […]

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COLLEGE SAILING SPOTLIGHT- A New Year, Old Challenges, New Successes: The Villanova Story

By Airwaves writer Margaret Boehm “From my experience over the past four years they [Villanova school administration] have fought us tooth and nail over every little thing we try to […]

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MIT Sailing is Selling Dinghies & Gear

  The MIT Sailing Pavilion is selling a whole bunch of extraneous equipment.Please forward this along to community program leaders who might beinterested in picking up some sailing equipment at […]

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Sail1Designer of the Month – November – Boston College’s Annie Haeger

By Sail1Design’s Martha Pitt  Annie Haeger grew up in the Chicago suburb Lake Forest, sailing in high school there and sailing on Lake Beulah in Wisconsin in the summers.  Her […]

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The Recession & College Club Sailing

By Sail1Design’s Margaret Boehm (Our apologies for earlier posting here an un-credited photo of the Bates College Sailing team to illustrate club college sailing. Won’t happen again.)   Most sailors […]

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SAIL1DESIGNER of the MONTH: University of Wisconsin, Madison

First in a monthly series of Featured One-Design People, Places, or Things. If you want to submit your “Sail1Designer of the Month” let us know!   [email protected] By Sail1Design’s Martha Pitt […]

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Hawaii Rainbow Warriors Win Stoney Burke Regatta- GO BOWS!

By Airwaves Reporter Renee DeCurtis The Treasure Island Sailing Center and UC Berkley hosted the annual Stoney Burke college regatta October 15-16 in San Francisco California.  Twenty four college teams […]

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Maine Maritime ACADEMY WINS World’s Largest College Sailing Regatta

  LARCHMONT, N.Y. (Oct. 11, 2011)–The Storm Trysail Foundation (STF) and Larchmont Yacht Club teamed up to run the world’s largest college regatta over Columbus Day weekend, with 400 collegiate […]

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College Sailing 2011-2012 Season Outlook

Put together by Martha Pitt, with contributions from Ken Legler, Bill Healy, Brendan Healy, Ward Cromwell, and John Vandemoer. As we look forward to the 2011-2012 College sailing season, much […]

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