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GROWTH: The secret is out, and she’s female

April 17th, 2013

While sailing industry types scratch their heads trying to find the right formula to increase the number of kids in sailing programs, and sailing clubs and racing associations nationwide worry about declining memberships, sailing is shifting and growing under their feet. Promoters repackage races to appeal to shoreside fans of testosterone-loaded extreme sports, selling sponsorships


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OPPORTUNITY: Using the sport to grow the sport

April 16th, 2013

While nearly 300 entrants gear up to compete in Sperry Top-Sider Charleston Race Week on April 19-21 in Charleston, SC, there is another event that is gearing up to use the spectacle to hopefully grow the sport. Sail Charleston is a free, one-day exhibition of sailing for people unfamiliar with the sport, and it plans


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WORTHY: A new mission merging sailors and giving

April 15th, 2013

By Rick Bernstein, Chairman It’s our hope that the name Sailing for Veterans stirs curious, then countless thoughts of what it means to be an American war veteran and what it means to live under the blanket of peace we too often take for granted. Thanks to tens of thousands of physically and mentally wounded



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