West Side Opti Training – Christophe Killian

I would like to thank the BYC Maritime Sciences and Seamanship Foundation for funding me to go to Santa Barbara to train with the West Side Opti Sailing Team. I trained with one of the top Opti coaches in the world, Manny Resano. The training improved my downwind...

US Laser Nationals 2010 – Gregg Kent

We had arrived in Milwaukee in the late afternoon and it was hot out. We hailed a cab, checked into our hotel and headed down Milwaukee YC to look at the venue. From what I could tell this was going to be a light air regatta, I was correct… for the most part. That...

2010 Ida Lewis Regatta – Bayley Davidson & Carolyn Smith

The Experience of a Lifetime by Bayley Davidson On June 25, the day after school ended, my skipper, Carolyn Smith, and I boarded a plane to fly to Hingham, MA for our first ever travel regatta, along with our first big C420 regatta. We had only been sailing the boat...

Sheboygan Match Racing Camp & Regatta – Walker Banks

  by Walker Banks The week of June 23-27, twenty five U.S. youth sailors completed an intensive five-day match race training camp run by three-time U.S. national champion and US Sailing Team Alphagraphics women’s match race coach Dave Perry. The camp was hosted...