High School & College News Articles

Sail1Design welcomes new Airwaves team member, Martha Pitt. Click here to read Martha’s Bio. Below is her first piece on college crewing.   By Martha Pitt, Airwaves Staff Writer. College sailing has been changing significantly over the past few years – teams are getting stronger, more physical, and becoming a deeper, more universally competitive and … Read More

Stay tuned tomorrow for Martha’s first Airwaves article on College crewing!!   Martha Pitt, Airwaves Writer photo by Robert Miglaccio Martha Pitt grew up in Milton, Massachusetts.  Summering on Martha’s Vineyard, MA, she learned how to sail and race optis and 420s at the Vineyard Haven Yacht Club and fell in love with the sport.  … Read More

The completion of the Eastern and Western Dinghy Semifinals sends eighteen schools to Nationals. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Jennifer Vandemoer Mitchell, Toile à Voile, LLC, 763-234-8286 Long Beach, Calif. (May 1, 2011) – It was another warm sunny day for the sailors at Belmont Veterans Memorial Pier at the U.S. Sailing Center in Long Beach, … Read More

2011 ICSA Coed Nationals Semifinals at U.S. Sailing Center, Long Beach, California FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Jennifer Vandemoer Mitchell, Toile à Voile, LLC, 763-234-8286 Long Beach, Calif. (April 30, 2011) – The first day of the Intercollegiate Sailing Association’s (ICSA) Coed Semifinals, where the 36 top college sailing teams in the country gathered to compete … Read More

by Steve Hunt Sail1Design encourages YOUR feedback. Please share your story or thoughts at the bottom of this article!! How cool would it be to get paid to race sailboats?  It’s VERY cool!  Fortunately I can say that, because I’m one of the lucky ones who gets paid to sail.  I am very passionate about … Read More

Thanks to www.photoboat.com for these great photos from the Prosser!   TEAMS: ROUND 1 ROUND 2 FINAL FOUR TOTAL POSITION GTN 6-1 5-2 2-1 13-4 1st HWS 4-3 6-1 3-0 13-4 2nd SMC 7-0 5-2 1-2 13-4 3rd NA 5-2 4-3 0-3 9-8 4th ODU 3-4 4-3 7-7 5th NYM 1-6 3-4 4-10 6th WAC … Read More

This is the first in an AirWaves Series on Youth-to-College-to-Olympic sailing. Joe Morris is currently a junior at Yale University, the team captain, and an accomplished dinghy sailor. Joe follows up this piece, below, with a great interview with Yale alum and Olympic 470 campaigner Stu McNay. Comments are welcome, we have a discussion blog … Read More

PRESS RELEASE    01/30/2011  Annapolis, MD Sail1Design is proud to announce our management and sponsorship of the College Sailing Team Race Rankings. These rankings are updated infrequently in the fall, and then twice a month in the spring college sailing seasons. Team Race Rankings are based on college teams’ performance in team race regattas and an … Read More