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ENCOURAGING PARTICIPATION AND PROMOTING EXCELLENCE IN SAILING
June 21, 2006

A record of over 310 sailors applied for the total
150 spots available on the starting line

COUNTRY'S TOP YOUTH SAILORS TO COMPETE FOR NATIONAL TITLE

The country’s 150 top youth sailors will arrive at Grosse Pointe Yacht Club in Grosse Pointe, MI, this week to compete in the nation’s premier youth sailing regatta, the U.S. Youth Sailing Championship. The regatta will officially kick off on Friday, June 23 with a three-day advanced racing clinic taught by some of the country’s best coaches. Racing for the National Championship title will be take place from Monday, June 26 through Wednesday, June 28. The competition will be raced in four different classes of boats: the singlehanded Laser and Laser Radial as well as the doublehanded Club 420 and 29er. The event is sponsored nationally by Vanguard Sailboats and Nautica.
> Find out who's coming, read the event preview, and get any other information by going to the event website at http://www.ussailing.org/championships/youth/youthchamp.

US SAILOR Of The Week
Macho Slavich

Macho Slavich

Macho Slavich, who was born in Croatia but calls New Orleans his home, learned to sail in his thirties in big boats. He started off by sailing on a 50-foot PHRF cruiser and has since sailed in everything from a J/130 and Irwin 31 to his own beloved S2 7.9. He fell in love the sport and the racing crowd and truly enjoys cruising the Gulf Coast and lake area around New Orleans. A funny thing happened though when he was watching the Finn sailors in the last Olympic Games: this big boat sailor who had never sailed in dinghies got charged up to start a local Finn fleet. After picking up the pieces post-hurricane Katrina (where he stayed behind and helped rescue friends and neighbors), he’s back re-building his Finn fleet. Macho jokes about “going backwards” in sailing, that is, starting in big boats and moving toward dinghies and adds, “Maybe in a year or two, I’ll be in an Opti. Does anyone know if there is a Gray Fleet?” In his spare time, he's also working to help create a new sailing center for the City of New Orleans.

BIG SHOW-UP AT USA JUNIOR OLYMPIC SAILING FESTIVAL - GREAT LAKES

More than 140 sailors youth sailors got on the water to enjoy the competition and clinics at the USA Junior Olympic Sailing Festival - Great Lakes, hosted by Sandusky Sailing Club in Ohio, last weekend.
> Full results from the USA Junior Olympic Sailing Festival - Great Lakes are available at http://www.jos.sailsandusky.accelogy.com/results.htm.

US SAILING TEAM-MEMBER GEOFF EWENSON IS ON A ROLL IN THE FINN CLASS

US Sailing Team-member Geoff Ewenson (Annapolis, MD) is on a roll right now after winning two major Finn regattas this month. Ewenson's impressive wins came at the Finn North American Championship (held in Toronto, Canada) and this past weekend at the Finn National Championship (held in Falmouth, MA). The National Championship was a hard-fought affair as Ewenson finished only one point ahead of Darrell Peck (Gresham, OR) while Bryan Boyd (Annapolis, MD) finished third. Looking ahead, the Finn Class has a number of events throughout the rest of the summer, including the Finn Gold Cup in July in Croatia, while gearing up for the Pre-Trials, October 20-22 in Newport Beach, CA.

QUALIFYING EVENTS FOR 2007 PAN AMERICAN GAMES DETERMINED

Qualifying regattas to select the sailors who will represent the United States at the 2007 Pan American Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, have been announced. US SAILING has determined nine trial events, beginning in September 2006 and continuing through March 2007. They will be hosted by several sailing organizations across the country. The sailing competition of the 2007 Pan American Games will feature nine events, including three Olympic classes -- Laser (Men), Laser Radial (Women) and RS:X (Men and Women) -- and five non-Olympic, open classes -- Hobie 16, J/24, Lightning, Snipe and Sunfish.
> A complete overview of the athlete selection procedures and schedule of the Trial events is available at http://www.ussailing.org/olympics/PanAm.

BUSY SEASON FOR SAILING WORLD LANDS' END NOOD REGATTAS

June is a busy month for Sailing World's Lands' End NOOD Regattas, sanctioned by US SAILING. Last weekend, the Chicago NOOD celebrated 228 boats, three days, 190 races (more than 43,000 individual finishes recorded), and winds that never dipped below 10 knots—the stats that make this year's edition of the Lands' End Chicago NOOD Regatta one of the best in its 15 years. This coming weekend, all eyes will be turning to Toronto for the next Lands' End NOOD on the calendar.
> Visit http://www.sailingworld.com/index.jsp for complete results from the Chicago NOOD and weather previews for the Toronto NOOD.

DO YOU KNOW A US SAILOR OF THE WEEK?

Who is the most passionate sailor you know? Who is always on the water, taking every rules quiz or searching for that perfect cruising lunch spot? Or do you know someone who is newly converted to the sport and soaking up information like a sponge? How about a junior sailor whom you have to command to "please step away from the dinghy." Do you know someone who gives as much time and energy to building a fleet or running races as they do to working at the office? We want to know about them!
> E-mail e-USSAILING's editors at eussailing@ussailing.org with a photo of that sailor and 100 words of background info. Check out past featured US SAILORS of the Week at http://www.ussailing.org/News/Sailor_of_the_Week/index.asp.

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