LONG BEACH, Calif.---Teenage sailors looking to raise their games have until Feb. 1 to sign up for the California International Sailing Association's 30th annual Advanced Racing Clinic April 12-15, Thursday through Sunday, at Alamitos Bay Yacht Club.
World-class competitors will tutor participants from across North America in Lasers, Laser Radials, Club 420s, International 420s, Club FJs and 29ers. Last year an elite staff of instructors including recent Olympic competitors showed 130 boys and girls ages 13 to 18 what it would take to sail in their shoes. The four typical 12-hour days mixed on-shore lectures with on-the-water drills focused on tactics, sail trim and boat handling.
Participants will be selected based on the résumés presented on their applications, which are available online at www.cisasailing.org/
Fees are $375 per Laser or Radial and $750 per Club 420, International 420, Club FJ or 29er ($375 per sailor). The fee includes three dinners. Fee payments and medical and liability forms must be mailed to: CISA, Marylee Goyan, P.O. Box 180580, Coronado, CA 92178
Director Robbie Dean has lined up a staff of instructors including Olympic medalist Pease Glaser and 2004 Olympians Isabelle Kinsolving and Peter Wells. Those three will be working with the 420 dinghy class, along with Jamie Malm and Jonathan Farrar.
Nick Adamson and Brett Davis will tutor the Lasers, Carisa Harris and Adam Deermount the Laser Radials, Jay Kehoe the CFJ dinghies and Zack Maxam the 29ers.
The clinic also will serve as a prep for this year's Club 420 North American high school sailing National championships for the Mallory Trophy, which will be sailed at the same venue.
Dean said he attended "five or six" clinics as a teenager and the program worked for him, although it was intimidating at first.
"Definitely. It was windy and I was a little kid and we were sailing Laser 2s with those big spinnakers."
But, he said, "At the end of my junior sailing career I had won the [U.S.] Youth Championship and also the Laser 2 world championship."
The instruction is non-stop. A typical CISA clinic means four 12-hour days spent on and off the water, with full-on racing the final day.
"It forces you to go a hundred per cent the whole time," said Myles Gutenkunst, 18, of Mill Valley, Calif., who attended his fifth clinic last year. "You're forced to do a lot of things you don't do in local regattas."
CISA, founded in 1971, supports amateur sailors by providing travel grants for regional, national and international competition and funds local sailing programs and racing clinics. With assistance from CISA, 35 sailors attended the recent Orange Bowl Regatta in Miami.
Event Duration: A One Day Event
Event Dates: April 14 and April 15
Event Location: Chicago Yacht Club’s Belmont Station
Event Fee: $95.00 with a $5.00 discount for current US SAILING members
Event Features: Continental Breakfast, Box Lunches, and cash bar after the event
Event Registration: Each session, April 14 or 15 is limited to 150 people and registration is required. Make your reservation by calling Chicago Yacht Club, 312-861-7777, and ask to attend the Safety-At-Sea Seminar. We intend to fill the April 14th session on a first-come-first-served basis. If reservations exceed the capacity of the first ses sion we will schedule subsequent reservations to the second day.
Event Payment: Credit Card or Chicago Yacht Club member charge. No payment refunds after April 1, 2007.
Event Benefits:
~ Learn medical, first-aid and seasickness prevention.
~ Learn the differences between SOLAS and other visual distress signals.
~ Moderated by some of the top names in sailing safety.
~ Organized by US SAILING, developed by Cruising World, and Sponsored by
~ West Marine, Zodiac North America and Oregon Scientific.
~ Certified safety program for offshore sailors, required for many races and recommended for anyone who wants to learn about safety relating to offshore sailing.
~ Delivered by approved moderators using US SAILING cert ified curriculum.
Stockholm, 19 January 2007 - The new Ericsson yacht that will compete in the 2008-09 Volvo Ocean Race will be built next to the company's offices in Kista, 10 kilometers north of Stockholm. The construction site will welcome Ericsson customers and employees, allowing perfect integration of the sailing project into the company's activities.
"As a team we have set high targets for our performance, both commercially and on the sports side", explains Richard Brisius, Managing Director for the Ericsson Racing Team. "Killian Bushe and his professional boat builders are setting up a state-of-the-art yard in Kista. This will provide us with the best possible build package and tools to reach our targets."
Ericsson will be constructed in a building that belongs to Klövern, a real estate company who will host the team office and the boat yard during the build phase. Their commitment to the Ericsson Racing Team is part of their activities to market Kista as an attractive area for business.
"We are happy to welcome Klövern into the team as our Official Yard Host. Without them it would not be possible to set up the yard in the midst of Kista and to have the ability to welcome customers and employees the way we want," continues Brisius.
Based in Ljungskile, Sweden, Killian Bushe has been building winning boats for over thirty years, producing many high quality racing yachts ranging in size from 40 to 85 feet. Among many successful projects is the Volvo 60 illbruck, which went on to win the 2001-02 Volvo Ocean Race with skipper John Kostecki.
More recent projects include the construction of Team ABN Amro's VO 70's, designed by Juan Kouyoumdjian (1st and 4th in the last VOR), and the new Americas Cup yacht for Victory Challenge (SWE). Killian and his team will work very closely with Kouyoumdjian (the team's designer) and other key members of the team in order to create the best possible boat.
"A boat such as Ericsson can be built anywhere, as long as there is enough space, cleanliness, the right temperature control and good ventilation. And this is precisely what Klövern provides us with", explains Killian Bushe. " The rest is about getting the right people, building the king sized ovens used for "baking" the carbon fiber parts of the boat and bringing in the special tools needed."
The design and construction rule remain relatively open for the next edition of the VOR, presenting a challenge for the designers and encouraging the development of even faster yachts. The boats will still have a canting keel, a choice of one or two centreboards, and one or two rudders.
The Ericsson Racing Team will participate for the second consecutive time in the world premiere Ocean Race. The last edition, concluded in fifth place, has been thoroughly debriefed, and with the appointment of skipper John Kostecki and designer Juan Kouyoumdjian the team believes they have a potent mix for building a strong and competitive team.
Auckland, New Zealand. USA 98, BMW ORACLE Racing’s new race yacht for the 32nd America’s Cup, sailed for the first time today after being launched at the team’s training base here. The team is conducting sea trials this week before starting an in-house racing programme to prepare for this year’s Cup competition in Valencia, Spain.
BMW ORACLE Racing CEO and Skipper Chris Dickson was at the helm for the maiden voyage of USA 98. “In a four-year campaign, it is only twice that the team has the thrill of taking a new yacht on its shakedown sail,” Dickson said. “Certainly this day is a milestone in our programme as we enter race mode and the final stretch to the Louis Vuitton Cup.”
USA 98’s first sail consisted of structural and technical tests on the Hauraki Gulf in Auckland. The team will first confirm the structural soundness of the new boat before race training begins. “The report card comes when we sail with the boat fully-loaded in race mode but for sailing right out of the box, 98 feels pretty special,” Dickson said. “We will start putting USA 98 through the paces later this week.”
About USA 98:
Like USA 87, the team’s first 2007-generation America’s Cup Class yacht, USA 98 is the product of the BMW ORACLE Racing Design and Build teams. BMW engineers are integrated into the 38-person international design team, bringing expertise in structural engineering and load analysis from the German premium car manufacturer.
Both USA 87 and USA 98 represent collaboration between two of the world’s leading yacht designers – Bruce Farr and Juan Kouyoumdjian. “Bruce Farr and Juan K are a formidable team – both in the diverse experience and strengths they bring to the programme as well as the professional working relationship they have forged over the course of this campaign,” said Ian Burns, BMW ORACLE Racing Design Coordinator. “They have a great mutual respect for each other’s work and their individual styles have brought the best out of the design team. Bruce and Juan worked closely together on both boats in a very similar process, bringing an interesting perspective to the design approach.”
The design team’s strategy called for each boat to have its own special strengths and distinct features rather than building two identical boats. “We incorporated all we learned from the innovative platform of 87,” Burns said.
The USA 98 design was brought to life by the 25-person team of boat-building experts led by boat construction managers Mark Turner, Tim Smyth and Mark Somerville. The carbon fibre composite hull of USA 98 was from a different mould than USA 87 which was also built at the team’s custom facility in Anacortes, WA, USA. BMW ORACLE Racing can elect to race either of their two latest-generation race boats in the 2007 Louis Vuitton Cup and there is also an option to substitute boats in between racing rounds. The Louis Vuitton Cup starts in 90 days.
About BMW ORACLE Racing:
BMW ORACLE Racing is the Challenger of Record for the 32nd America’s Cup representing Golden Gate Yacht Club in San Francisco, and the only American entry in the contest for sailing’s most prestigious prize and the oldest trophy in international sport. Team owner is American Larry Ellison, founder and CEO of Oracle. Partner of the team is German premium car manufacturer BMW. Sponsors include Allianz, leading global financial services provider; Girard-Perregaux, Swiss manufacturer of high-class mechanical timepieces; Henri Lloyd, Technology Partner and supplier of team clothing and Network Appliance, Inc. (NetApp), a world leader in unified storage solutions.
The Louis Vuitton Cup, the Challenger Selection Series for the 32nd America’s Cup, starts 16 April in Valencia, Spain. Eleven teams from nine nations are vying for the right to Challenge for the America’s Cup. The winner of the Louis Vuitton Cup will face the Swiss Defender Team Alinghi in the 32nd America’s Cup Match starting 23 June in Valencia.
CHARLESTON, South Carolina (January 12, 2007) —Ten years ago, two amateur sailors created a race from Charleston to Bermuda, inspired by their sheer enjoyment of time spent on the water, and what’s now known as C2B is going strong to this date. Since that seminal edition, this biennial bluewater dash to the isle of the onions has been staged four other times. The sixth edition of C2B will begin on Friday, May 18th, and race organizers at the South Carolina Maritime Foundation are pleased to announce a full spectrum of activities as well as strong support from the Bermuda government and numerous commercial sponsors.
“We really feel that this edition of the race will be the finest yet,” said Brad Van Liew, Executive Director of the South Carolina Maritime Foundation. “Working with our steering committee and officials from Bermuda Tourism, we’ve made a number of important enhancements to the format of the race, and to the social side, and we’re already seeing positive results in the way of increased early entries.”
Van Liew explained that the race will start right in the harbor, amid the ongoing activities of the foundation’s annual Maritime Festival. “You’ll have all that going on, but really one of the key attractions will be the fact that we’ve combined several events. The race will start with Tall Ships® Charleston as a backdrop. We don’t have a full count just yet, but there are likely to be somewhere in the neighborhood of 11 classic tall ships in the harbor for that weekend. But the best part of it all is that our own ship—the Spirit of South Carolina—will be the centerpiece for all this activity.”
Competitors in the C2B will sail 777 miles to St. Georges Bermuda, where they’ll be welcomed by the Royal Bermuda Yacht Club and Bermuda Tourism. Before departing, the participants will enjoy Charleston’s unparalleled hospitality, including the Governor’s Celebration of Sail hosted by Bermuda Tourism and the South Carolina Maritime Foundation. South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford and the Honorable Dr. Ewart Brown, the Premier of Bermuda, will honor the captains attending, including those readying to leave for Bermuda and those having just arrived aboard the tall ships.
“There’s no doubt,” said Van Liew, “we’re really taking the entire event up several notches, which is where it deserves to be.” As an example of this, he mentioned that all participating yachts will be equipped with a satellite tracking system to guarantee regular position updates and enhanced safety.
Van Liew said that already the word is out in the sailing community, and he and his fellow organizers have received firm commitments from seven boats. “We’ve received entries from a range of boats, the smallest of our first seven, at the moment, is 42 feet, and the largest is 100 feet. We’re also considering the possibility of including a double-handed division this year.” He was keen to explain that the C2B is an all-inclusive event. “We definitely have hard-core competitors in this race, but we truly welcome sailors of all stripes. The emphasis here is on fun, and that’s built into the event’s history. You don’t have to own a speed machine to participate in the C2B, just a sound, seaworthy sailboat.”
The Charleston to Bermuda Race is open to any seaworthy sailing vessel 30 feet and longer. Sponsors of this year’s event include Bermuda Tourism, Gosling’s Black Seal Rum, the Fairmont Hamilton Princess, the Charleston Harbor Resort, Bennett-Hofford, and Charleston Boatworks. The Charleston Ocean Racing Association handles race committee duties for C2B.
US SAILING's two popular Symposiums, the National Sailing Programs Symposium (NSPS) and the One-Design Sailing Symposium (ODSS), will be held together over a five-day period in New Orleans, La., January 17-21, 2007. The National Sailing Programs Symposium, presented by Vanguard Sailboats and geared towards sailing program organizers, will kick off the events on Wednesday, January 17 and run through Sunday, January 21. The One-Design Symposium, created for one-design class organizers, will take place January 20-21 at the same hotel, the New Orleans Marriott at the Convention Center.
First created in 1983 and held annually since, US SAILING’s National Sailing Programs Symposium has, over the years, brought together thousands of sailing program organizers. Presented by Vanguard Sailboats, this Symposium is an outstanding event for any sailing program organizer, with numerous educational seminars and workshops on the agenda. The purpose of this annual Symposium is for participants to network with other organizers and to share ideas on what it takes to run a successful sailing program.
Created for sailors and one-design classes who would like to learn more about one-design sailing, US SAILING first organized the One-Design Symposium in 2004. The event has been a success from the beginning. With over 200 active sailboat classes in the U.S., topics at the Symposium cover the full spectrum from the nuts and bolts of building a fleet to the intricacies of keeping a successful class running smoothly.