The Creative Innovations in Programming award recognizes those programs, or individuals, who have successfully found new, and different, methods for teaching sailing.
Past winners have included programs who combine sailing with non-traditional offerings (cooking, rock climbing, etc.) to create joint programming and organizations that have found new ways to utilize their existing resources to get new sailors on the water. This purpose of this award is to highlight those that think “outside the box” and through their ingenuity have further connected their organization to the community.
Previous Award Recipients
- 2023 – Boothbay Sea and Science Center
- 2022 – Mystic Seaport Museum Sailing Center
- 2021 – Pleasant Bay Community Boating
- 2020 – Not Awarded
- 2019 – Mission Bay Aquatic Center
- 2018 – A.B.L.E. To Sail
- 2017 – Sail Nauticus
- 2016 – New England Science and Sailing
- 2015 – Not Awarded
- 2014 – Young Mariners Foundation
- 2013 – Kurt & Meka Taulbee, Sailfit
- 2012 – Jen Guimaraes, Lake Champlain Community Sailing Center
- 2011 – Drayton Harbor Maritime Community Sailing School
- 2010 – Lacey Todd, Treasure Island Sailing Center
- 2009 – Not Awarded
- 2008 – Not Awarded
- 2007 – Bull & Bear Sailing
- 2006 – Jerry Valeske, Sail Sand Point
- 2005 Association of Santa Monica Bay YC
- 2002-2004 – Not Awarded
- 2001 – Ione Junior HS Sailing Program
- 2000 – Captain Richard Goben, Barque “Star of India”
- 1994-1999 – Not Awarded
- 1993 – Ron Singleton, Footloose Sailing Assoc.
- 1992 – Seattle Alternative School & Philadelphia City Sail