Youth Sailing: Get Out of Your Comfort Zone This Summer!

With Opti Team Trials over, and the high school sailing season winding down, many youth racers are considering the question, what’s next? Sailing is a sport with almost unlimited options, from day sailing to offshore passages, dinghies to schooners, skiffs to cats, kiting, foiling… the list goes on. What a great time to be a sailor.

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Event Recap: Americans Finish On the Podium at RS Feva Worlds

By: John Pearce, Youth Director, US Sailing In early April Dieter Creitz and Conrad Miller, representing Seattle Yacht Club, finished third out of fifty one teams in the 2018 RS Feva Worlds hosted by Clearwater Community Sailing in Clearwater, Florida (complete results here). Despite the excellent finish, their path to the championship was far from…Read More

US Sailing Launches New Website

BRISTOL, R.I. (May 22, 2018) – As many of you may have noticed, US Sailing created a new website. Following months of research and input from our valued members and constituents, as well as time and effort from our staff and tech team, US Sailing has launched a new website designed to better serve all…Read More

Show Your Support for US Sailing Center Miami

The lease is up for renewal at the US Sailing Center Miami. We need your help in renewing the lease to ensure this facility remains a Miami community sailing center and an official Olympic Training site.

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2024 Olympic Events: Open Letter from US Sailing

To U.S. sailors, Many American sailors care deeply about Olympic sailing and the equipment that gets used in one of the most exciting events in our sport. US Sailing has elected to be a proactive participant as World Sailing works to clarify the future of Olympic sailing. As part of that effort, we would like…Read More

Randy Smyth Wins Fifth Career U.S. Multihull Championship Title

FORT WALTON BEACH, Fla. (April 22, 2018) – Legendary multihull sailor, Randy Smyth (Fort Walton Beach, Fla.), won his record-setting fifth career Hobie Alter Trophy for the U.S. Multihull Championship this weekend in his hometown of Fort Walton Beach, Fla. The 2018 U.S. Multihull Championship was hosted by the Fort Walton Yacht Club in conjunction with…Read More

Florida’s Emerald Coast Welcomes 2018 U.S. Multihull Championship

FORT WALTON BEACH, Fla. (April 18, 2018) – The Spring sailing season has arrived and the US Sailing National Championship season gets underway this week on Florida’s Emerald Coast in Fort Walton Beach. The 2018 U.S. Multihull Championship, hosted by the Fort Walton Yacht Club, takes place over four days of racing on Choctawhatchee Bay…Read More

US Sailing Names Qualifying Regattas for 2018 U.S. Team Racing Championship

2018 Hinman to be Hosted by The Foundry in Cleveland, Ohio BRISTOL, RI (April 17, 2018) – US Sailing and the U.S. Team Racing Championship committee has instituted a series of qualifying regattas for the 2018 U.S. Team Racing Championship, hosted by The Foundry in Cleveland, Ohio on September 27-30. These qualifying events will be…Read More

US Sailing Hanson Medal to be Awarded at Pacific Sail and Power Boat Show for 2017 Rescue in San Francisco Bay

Sailors Rescue Swimmer from Sea Lion BRISTOL, RI (April 13, 2018) – The US Sailing Safety at Sea Committee will award the Arthur B. Hanson Rescue Medal to a sailboat’s crew for their rescue of a swimmer injured by an attacking sea lion in San Francisco Bay. The rescuing sailors aboard Grey Goose conducted the…Read More

Chapman, Keen Honored as US Sailing 2017 Coaches of the Year

Pictured from left: U.S. Youth World Team Leader Leandro Spina, Emma Cowles, Steve Keen, Carmen Cowles, and Rosie Chapman. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 12, 2018 Portsmouth, R.I.- After receiving nominations from the public in early 2018, US Sailing’s Olympic Sailing Committee (OSC) today announced two winners of 2017 national coaching awards. Rosie Chapman (Houston, Texas) has been…Read More