The Milwaukee Community Sailing Center (MCSC), perched on the shores of Lake Michigan, is celebrating the completion of a new 6,000 ft2 building that includes everything from expanded classroom facilities to indoor plumbing. Nice!Founded in 1979, MCSC offers sailing classes for adults and sailing programs for at-risk kids. It maintains a fleet of about 75 boats, comprised of everything
A team of 19 designers recently met in Valencia, Spain, to begin working on a new decision rule for the 34th Americas Cup.The teams want a new boat. The fans deserve one too, said Russell Coutts, four-time winner of the Americas Cup and CEO of BMW Oracle, winner of the 33rd Cup match. It will not be a defenders boat. It will be the product of genuine discussion and
From May 28 to June 3, the University of Wisconsin at Madison will host the 2010 ICSA Spring Nationals, college sailing’s pinnacle regatta. Over the course of 10 days, Lake Mendota will see fierce competition in three back-to-back events: women’s racing, team racing and the collegiate co-ed championships.400 sailors on 59 teams from 18 schools will participate, with hundreds more
No, you cant park it in your driveway yet, but the 19 designers who met today in Valencia put rubber on the road toward a decision on what kind of boat well be racing in Americas Cup 34, monohull or multihull. Beyond the tradeoffs, priorities and passions that might pop up in any barside conversation anwhere, these people were concerned with matters such as the ease of shipping these new
At a press conference in Rome, the defender and challenger of record for the 34th Americas Cup revealed a timeline and, more importantly, a philosophical approach to the regatta, which they hope will repair the damage of the 33rd Cup match.Diktat has been replaced by discussion, confrontation by consultation . Our minds and our ears are open. We are receptive to ideas, said Russell
There were no bombshells in the Americas Cup 34 press conference held today in Romes Musei Capitolini, but the hour-long session had its moments. Most of all it got me to thinking how long its taken for a familiar idea to take root. That being, to normalize Cup racing, give it a structure, and establish a marketable schedule for an event that long ago outgrew the 19th century vision of a yacht
The 2010 BVI Spring Regatta and Sailing Festival, as its more properly called, falls in the height of the Caribbean racing season, a couple of weeks after the Heineken regatta in St Maarten and a couple of weeks before Antigua Sailing Week. Plenty of serious racers do all three regattas, and probably also the Rolex regatta in St Thomas and the Heineken regatta in Puerto Rico, which are also
Over 300 supporters came out to honor the American skipper Rich Wilson on on April 7th for his contribution to American sailing and youth education. Wilson, the 60-year old skipper of Great American III and math teacher from Boston, is best known for his participation in the 2008-9 Vendee Globe race, where he finished 9th after 121 days. But the skipper’s
Earlier today, the IMOCA 60 Estrella Damm was almost assured of victory as it closed in on the finish of its NY-BCN record passage, between New York and Barcelona, Spain.Crewmembers Alex Pella, Pepe Ribes and Stan Schreyer are hoping to finish this afternoon with the help of a thermal breeze, which they were worried will drop with the sun this evening.Currently, they have
After riding an express train across the Atlantic, the two Open 60s vying to establish a new sailing record between New York and Barcelona, Spain, have slowed to a crawl in the Mediterranean.Estrella Damm was the first to enter the Straits of Gibraltar, with W Hotels about 130 miles behind. However, W Hotels has since cut the deficit in half.Although
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