Youth Sailing Archives

From triathlon training to youth sailing

October 29th, 2026

Carlos Insa, Head Optimist Sailing Coach at Seawanhaka Corinthian Yacht Club (Oyster Bay, NY), this past summer introduced a different

October 28th, 2026

Junior sailing in the USA got “soccerized” in the 1980s, using a system of age-based events and boats to help

October 23rd, 2026

This is the mission statement for a notable club’s junior program: “The mission is to develop knowledgeable youth sailors and

October 8th, 2026

The sport of sailing may not want to consider it elitist, but you must sail on the water, and waterfront

September 11th, 2026

British sailing coach Dom Barnes offers this reminder for parents with youth sailors: I watched a parent rig their kid’s

August 13th, 2026

by Stuart Greenfield, offshore sailing coach I began racing offshore properly in 1974 and, more than half a century and

August 5th, 2026

Cécile Divoy shares the lessons she learned from college sailing in this LinkedIn post: I was crew on the Georgetown

July 30th, 2026

by Craig Leweck, Scuttlebutt Sailing News The Guardians of the Monohull are a humorous group which recently considered how a

February 23rd, 2026

by Craig Leweck, Scuttlebutt Sailing News At the 2026 Winter Olympics, Norway topped the medal count with the most medals

January 29th, 2026

by Craig Leweck, Scuttlebutt Sailing News I wrote the report, The Soccerization of Sailing, in 2009 which noted how the