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College Recruitment for Fordham University

Fellow and Gal Sunfish Sailors:

As many of you know, I started coaching the Fordham University Sailing Team five years ago when it returned to collegiate competition. Since I retired last year, it has become my full-time avocation. Each year, I have requested your assistance in identifying good students, who are also good sailors, who want to compete at the college level, and several of you have provided promising leads. The first one was for a young lady, Rachel Daugherty, from Little Rock, Arkansas in the spring of 2001. Rachel visited NYC and Fordham in her senior year; fell in love with both, and graduated from Fordham last Saturday with a 3.3 GPA and a double major in Anthopology and Spanish Literature. She sailed for Fordham for four years and was the low point skipper in 2003, when we won our first regatta and again last fall, when we co-hosted with Columbia the 1st Annual Lady Rams / Lady Lions Big Apple Classic. She also served as Team Captain and as Undergraduate North Region Representative to the Middle Atlantic Intercollegiate Sailing Association. All this from one posting on the Sunfish Message Board.

In June 2003, SAILING WORLD selected Fordham as it's first "Up and Coming Program" for the year. The editors were prescient because thereafter Fordham won the MAISA Club Teams' Championship and the Greater New York Area Dinghy Championship while our women's team took 2nd place at the Sugar Bowl Regatta. Our application for varsity status has been submitted to the administration and is under consideration. Our ranking in the 42 school MAISA conference has gone from 26-20-17-12-13 and at this spring's championship regatta for the America Trophy, Fordham finished 11th. Our goal for the fall is to crack the Top 10 in our conference for the first time, and our Five Year Plan is to be ranked among the Top 20 nationally. We can only do this by attracting very experienced sailors, who are committed to succeed on-the-water as well as in the classroom.

Fordham University is in New York City. Our beautiful Rose Hill campus in the Bronx is 10 minutes from our home port at Morris Yacht and Beach Club on City Island, overlooking Eastchester Bay and Long Island Sound. The combination of attaining an excellent education at the Jesuit University in NYC, the best college town in the country, and sailing at a sensational sailing site only seven miles from campus is tough to beat. We have a fleet of nine, soon to be 12, 420s and a very active 138 member Afterguard, our Alumni-Parents-Friends of Fordham Sailing support group, that just completed Phase I of a two phase effort to finance a $1 million Sailing Endowment.

If you know some good high school senior or junior sailors, who seek an academic challenge as they prepare for life in the real world, and who would like to sail in some meaningful regattas against good competition as college freshmen, while having fun doing so, please invite them to visit our web site, www.fordham.edu/athletics/sailing and/or contact me at Joesunfish@aol.com. Any and all leads will be followed-up and are appreciated. Thank you very much.

Joe Sullivan, US 21681

Posted by elisa at 08:50 AM

J-80 Long Island Championship; NE Circuit Stop #1

J-80 Long Island Championships at Breakwater YC

Posted by elisa at 07:04 PM

Breakwater Yacht Club Sunday Series

Breakwater Yacht Club Community Sailing Center

SUNDAY SERIES

Every Sunday, May 1 – Sept. 25 (3 – 5 PM)

The American Hotel/Suffolk County National Bank Sunday One-Design Racing Series for Sunfish, Lasers, Moths, JY15’s, and Optis (Other one-design classes are possible).

Check www.breakwateryc.org for application forms.

Got Questions - Email Lee Oldak through BYC website or call 631-267-6325

Posted by elisa at 10:48 PM

2005 New Suffolk Series Notice of Race

Peconic Bay Sailing Association Presents The New Suffolk Series 2005

Notice Of Race

Dates:

Rules:
These events will be governed by the Racing Rules of Sailing 2005-2008, applicable One Design rules, the USSA prescriptions and the Sailing Instructions.

Entry:
The events are open to all yachts who have a PHRF certificate. PBSA members receive entry as a membership benefit. Non PBSA members can enter by paying a $10 entry fee. No pre-registration is necessary. In order to have timely results the race committee will use any information available to score any boat for which the race committee does not have a PHRF certificate. No redress will be granted to a participant who has not provided a PHRF Certificate before the race is scored. The onus is on each yacht to provide such. Any yacht which crosses the starting line at the time of a start will be considered racing and liable for the entry fee, if it applies, and for scoring in the series as per the scoring rules.

Location:
The three Sunday afternoon races will start in Cutchogue Harbor. The start area will be selected by the Race Committee to provide an upwind start. Entrants should look for the designated committee boat in leeward parts of the harbor. This could be, but isn’t limited to, C"1", the Wednesday PM starting Line, (S"1" and S"2"), or set marks off Robin’s Island or Nassau Point. Consult the PBSA Race Packet for potential start areas for specific wind conditions. The PBSA Race Committee will broadcast start locations on VHF Channel 72 one half hour prior to the start and when arriving on location. The Friday night race will start at the Wednesday night starting line.

Classes:
The scoring will divide participants into Cruising, Spinnaker and One Design Classes. The Sailing Instructions will indicate the starting sequence and order of starts as specified by the race committee.

Scoring:
PBSA Race Committee will employ a modified "Golf Handicapping" system for daily races. Time penalties will be applied for leading boats in the series. Please see the PBSA Race Packet for explanation of this scoring system. For the series, there will a minimum of three races finished for series scoring and the Low Point System as per RRS Appendix A -A4 will be used according to the rules outlined in the race packet. When conditions permit, the race committee may add races on the water by signaling such. The daily race results for any class for which additional races are sailed will be scored individually with "Golf adjustments" which would be different for each race. Each race will be scored for The New Suffolk Series. The daily placements will use RRS Low Point Scoring of the multiple races.

Courses:
The Courses sailed are to be selected from the pre-published courses included in the PBSA Racing Packet; or, courses designated by the Race Committee Boat or Auxiliary Race Committee Boat.

Sailing Instructions:
SI’s are included in the PBSA Racing Packet, available at New Suffolk Shipyard and may be posted on the PBSA Web site (www.pbsa.net). Due to the uncertainty of staffing Race Committee, entrants should not assume SI’s will be available on the water.

Prizes:
Awards will be given for the daily finishes for each race day and for the series. The depth of the awards is solely at the discretion of the Race Committee Chairman. The awards will be distributed at the PBSA Fall Dinner.

Contact:
Andrew Shemella shemandr@optonline.net
(631) 477-6004
310 Front street , Greenport, NY 11944

Posted by elisa at 08:37 PM

2005 May Cup - Notice of Regatta May 4, 11, 18, 25

Rules:
The U.S. Sailing Association's Racing Rules of Sailing 2005-2008 edition will govern this regatta.

Eligibility
Breakwater Yacht Club members in good standing having paid the entry fee of 30.00 and signed the captains waiver, and provided proof of insurance are eligible. ELISA PHRF 2005 certificates must be submitted before 5/25/05 in order for a boat to be scored. Visiting yachts may enter at a cost of $10.00 per individual race. They must provide proof of insurance and hold a valid PHRF certificate or be a stock (non-customized) boat with an easily obtainable rating. Visiting yacht entries must be submitted by 5 PM on the day of the race that vessel plans to sail.

Divisions:
Division splits to be announced based on entries. Non- Spinnaker divisions only.

Registration:
Must be completed in advance on the attached form and submitted with the proper fee, ELISA PHRF 2005 certificate and insurance form. Yachts planning to sail one night only must declare their intention to race at the BYC before 5 pm. that evening to avoid confusion, no entry or declaration will be accepted by the R.C. boat
No boat will be scored with out a valid paid entry in hand prior to the race your time will not be taken there will be no retroactive scoring.
Entry is good for the yacht named on the entry only -no substitutions allowed. Entries can be mailed to Carol Morse 421 North Main Street Southampton, N.Y. 11968

Measurement:
A valid ELISA PHRF 2005 certificate must be submitted

Courses:
All races will be run in Shelter Island Sound. A course sheet and race instructions will be handed out prior to the first race although a course board on the committee boat may be utilized.

Start
The first gun will be sounded at 6:00 PM local time in the area west of Majors Cove in Shelter Island Sound.

Scoring:
The low point scoring system (U.S. Sailing rules Appendix A) will be used. One throw out will be used.

Prizes for 1st 2nd and 3rd place will be awarded in both divisions
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*Changes to these instructions may be posted on the BYC club house notice board prior to the race.

Posted by elisa at 04:56 PM

2005 Sunfish Regatta Schedule

World and National Championships

Regional Championships

Posted by elisa at 04:35 PM