Western District Regatta, open to sailors who represent JSA member clubs in New York State serves as a qualifier for JSA Championships in C420, Laser, Laser Radial and Pixel classes. This year’s Western Districts, held at Sea Cliff Yacht Club brought East winds averaging nine miles per hour and gusting up ... read more »

Shelter Island Yacht Club Open Optimist Area A Invitational is a qualifying event for 2015 JSA Optimist Champs. 104 Optis competed, including 35 in white fleet, 53 in blue fleet and 16 in red fleet on July 8. Wind blew from Southwest at 14 miles per hour and Race Committee held four races for all three ... read more »

Open to all boats of the Laser and Club 420 classes from JSA member clubs in Connecticut, the Eastern District Regatta at Noroton Yacht Club is a qualifying event for the 2015 JSA Laser and Club 420 Championship. Eastern Districts at Noroton this year showed slow Northwest winds, averaging three miles per ... read more »

Commodore Law Trophy Regatta is the first JSA of LIS regatta of the summer sailing season on Monday to Tuesday, June 29 to 30. It is open exclusively to sailors who qualified for JSA Champs the previous year or were accepted by resume. The regatta is hosted at Indian Harbor Yacht Club in Greenwich, ... read more »

Sail in the McIntyre Team Race! Whether you are a veteran team racer or new to team racing, the McIntyre Trophy Team Race clinegatta is the perfect event for you to kick off the summer racing season. The clinegatta takes place at SUNY Maritime College in the Bronx, New York on July 6 to 8, Monday to ... read more »

JSA’s annual Racing Clinic, co-sponsored by Oyster Bay Sailing Foundation helps sailors improve their ability to qualify for JSA champs in August. Conditioning, on-the-water drills, and interactive discussions about boat speed, tactics, and rules take place during the clinic. At Port Washington Yacht Club ... read more »

Head instructing sailing means more than teaching sailing. It means managing other instructors, working with parents and more. At the Head Instructor Workshop on June 11 at Beach Point Club, this year’s 35 head instructors, program managers and other senior staff learned from experienced coaches on how to ... read more »

Usually, it’s hard to find a good breezy day on the Long Island Sound, but at the 2014 JSA Laser/C420 Championship Regatta hosted by Shelter Island Yacht Club, the tides took a change with big winds, lots of waves, and fierce competition. “It was really choppy out there,” Hector McKemy of AYC told me. “We ... read more »

Patience was the key to the sixth Annual SUNY Maritime College Junior Challenge for Club 420 sailors. After a nearly four hour postponement the first of six races went off at 5:33 p.m. Thirty competitors representing Eastern Connecticut Sailing Association, Great South Bay Yacht Racing Association, ... read more »