Each year the coaches and sailors from the US Merchant Marine Academy at Kings Point on Long Island Sound support the Storm Tyrsail Club Safety at Sea Seminar, which trains junior sailors in safely handling big boats.
The USMMA offshore team gets its skill and experience from participating in events such as the Farr 40 World Championship.
For 2008, they have a great blog site with profiles of each team member who will be on the boat in April. One of their team was on the Morning Light Trans-Pac project and stated that his best day of sailing included, "...trimming spinnaker and duck-diving waves while being more than 25 feet from the bow the entire time we were on port ...as we logged an average of 32 knots of wind and boat speed of 20 knots ...which resulted in us taking green water all the way back to the pedestals."
See the complete blog at http://usmmafarr40worlds.blogspot.com/
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