Sail1Design is pleased to bring you our coach panel’s ICSA Team Race Rankings Update #2. LOTS of data to digest and update!!! Remember to click on the team’s ranking link to read Coach Panel Comments! Thanks to our panel: Chris Klevan (Stanford), Ken Legler (Emeritus), John Mollicone (Brown), Isaac Clark (U Penn), and Johnny Norfleet … Read More
Youth Sailors, Take Notice. Meet The New Turbo 420
Mildly resembling that mad scientist from Back to the Future, both in action and in thought, Fran Charles continues to push our community, and sometimes drag others, toward sailing innovation. Because it is often very comfortable to get stuck in the past, using antiquated ideas, equipment, and rules, over and … Read More
Success at Orange Bowl College Night
By Airwaves Writer Zach Brown Biscayne Bay Yacht Club hosted almost 200 future college sailors and twenty-six universities at the 2012 Orange Bowl College Night. The night started off at 5 pm as college sailing coaches and representatives poured into BBYC’s bottom floor and set up their tables. Each coach or team representative brought information … Read More
So You Want To Sail in College?
Some sailing things to think about when choosing a college… Bill Jorch, Airwaves Writer Editors Note: Sail1Design would like to welcome Bill Jorch to the Airwaves team. Bill is a Georgetown grad, was a member of the sailing team there, and now lives in Annapolis, MD with his wife. We look forward to Bill’s contributions … Read More
College Night at the Orange Bowl
Questions? Please email Zach Brown: [email protected] –too late for press, but Connecticut College will be there too! For more information please email Zach Brown: [email protected]
Zim Sailing Responds to ICSA Championship Boat/Sponsor Agreement
This letter was published this morning on the ICSA List-serve and sent directly to Sail1Design. It follows our earlier publication here Earlier this fall, the NEISA Executive Committee approved a directive that has forced the ICSA President to convene a special meeting of the ICSA Board of Directors to discuss the sponsorship contract with … Read More
Lightning Boat Grant Program – Now Accepting Applications!
By Airwaves writer Martha Pitt Attention sailors: Want to experience high level sailing in a competitive boat, have all of your sailing paid for this summer while receiving mentoring from a class veteran? The International Lightning Class Association has just the opportunity! The Lightning Boat Grant Program offers sailors age 19 and older the … Read More
Getting the Most Out of Your College Sailing Experience
By Airwaves Staff Writer Elizabeth Dudley We have had the coaches point of view on what one should do if considering college sailing thanks to Maggie Lumkes article “Thinking About Sailing in College? Check out These Ten Tips Straight from College Coaches” that was posted in August. Now it’s October. The new freshman class is … Read More
Meet The UMass-Dartmouth Sailing Team
By Kelly Stannard Having started up just a year ago, UMass Dartmouth is now a fully funded women’s varsity team, with 13 sailors and three coaches. This team does not have the typical start-up story like most other teams in NEISA or other districts. Most commonly, a school has several enthusiastic sailors who start … Read More
Jacksonville University Sailing Team – A Model for a Building Team
By Airwaves Writer Martha Pitt Across the country, high school and youth sailing is continuing to grow, and subsequently the number of junior sailors looking to sail at the college level – many have their eyes on teams at the top of the college rankings. As it stands now, with few exceptions, the same collegiate … Read More
Controversy in the ICSA: The Future of The “College Sailing Dinghy”
……under scrutiny Last month, Airwaves writer Zach Brown published an article on “Meet The New Collegiate 420.” This article presented information on LaserPerformance’s new 420 design made specifically for college sailing, with the overall design focus of … Read More
“The Firefly Returns to the Charles”
Editors Note: We encourage more response from our readers on College Sailing Dinghies, past present & future, and we have had a lot of feedback from Zach Brown’s original article on the LaserPerformance Collegiate 420. We thought this piece on the Rondar Firefly was particularly well done and illuminates not only the boat, but it’s … Read More
An Insider’s Guide to the Boats of College Sailing
By Airwaves writer Zach Brown (please add your comments in our online forum at the bottom of this article.) The announcement of the new Collegiate 420 by Laser Performance sprung an interesting discussion about the many boats available to collegiate sailing programs around the country. There are more dinghy manufacturers and more boat options … Read More