Wednesday, April 16, 2025
New LS Photon System Replaces Wire Rigging with Fiber Light Speed Rigging, an advanced fiber sailboat rigging company, has introduced a revolutionary new system called LS Photon. An exclusive design, it allows sailboat riggers to install high performance fiber rigging on a wider range of sailboats using common wire riggingTuesday, March 4, 2025
Oh, Canada! In sailing equality, energy and excitement combined with equity on and off the water can take many forms. Sometimes in the most unlikely of places as when we think of sailing, we don't really think of Canada. We picture Newport, San Diego, San Francisco, the Mediterranean, Mexico etc.... The relaunch of theThursday, December 5, 2024
Leadership in Women’s Sailing Award Nominations The National Women’s Sailing Association (NWSA) and Boat Owners Association of The United States (BoatUS) have opened nominations for the 2025 BoatUS/NWSA Leadership in Women’s Sailing Award. Since 1999 the national award has sought to recognize an individual with aMonday, August 12, 2024
Epic Mackinac Affairs It was a year for the record books and the ages for both of the Races to Mackinac Island as the 100th Anniversary for the Bayview Yacht Club’s Race from Port Huron and the Chicago Yacht Club’s 115th Race checked off all the boxes with a pair of exciting and suspenseful, action-packed sailboat racesMonday, June 5, 2023
(L to R) NWSA board member and BoatUS’ Claire Wyngaard; Dr. Anne Kolker, 2023 BoatUS/NWSA Leadership in Women’s Sailing Award honoree; and NWSA president Debbie Grimm (credit: Matthew Cohen). PRINGFIELD, Va., June 5, 2023 – Dr. Anne Kolker grew up sailing, first as a youngster, then through college, medicalSaturday, February 4, 2023
Offshore Sailing School President and CEO, Doris Colgate, announced today that the company’s popular resort-based sailing courses will start March 1, 2023, at Tween Waters Island Resort & Spa on Captiva Island, Florida. “We’ve known and respected the owners and management of Tween Waters Island Resort for manyFriday, February 3, 2023
Milwaukee, WI – Registration is now open for the 13th annual Midwest Women’s Sailing Conference. The Conference welcomes women and gender non-binary sailors of all skill levels and sailing interests to the Milwaukee Community Sailing Center on Saturday, May 13, 2023. The event features a keynote by Olympic sailorWednesday, January 18, 2023
Sometimes ya just gotta do something nuts. At least, I find that I do. The day-to-day grind starts to get to me, and for me, the way to break that feeling is to do something that, I guess, in most people's minds, is a little nuts. I found this out while we were sailing in Bora Bora a few days ago. We were on one of our Share The SailWednesday, January 11, 2023
On December 12, 2022, a provisional world wind-powered speed record was set by the Emirates Team New Zealand America’s Cup crew on a dry lakebed in southern Australia. A high-tech and very well-funded effort to set the record using a purpose-built land sailing craft, they managed to reach an incredible speed of 139.4 mph in justThursday, January 5, 2023
There are many components that need to come together in creating and maintaining a successful team. First and foremost is finding the right people who share a common goal and the means to collectively work towards that end in an environment of hard work, discipline, and fun while learning along the way, whether you win or not. The
