America's Best Young Sailors Aim For Denmark

The future of American sailing will be on display January 18-21 when Alamitos Bay Yacht Club hosts the 2008 US SAILING ISAF Youth World Qualifier and US Youth Multihull Championship.

See full details at http://www.sailing.org/21930.php

LISOT's Antoine Screve Wins 2007 Orange Bowl

This year’s Orange Bowl was one of the most competitive regattas in US waters in 2007, as well as an event that actually had some decent breeze.

2007 ended on a high note for team LISOT (Long Island Sound Optimist Training) with Antoine Screve winning a very competitive 2007 Orange Bowl Regatta. Congratulations Antoine for an outstanding regatta – and winning the hard way... without a single bullet.

See full details at the LISOT blog , including some great photos.

Screve's win was also reported in Magnus Wheatley's blog ; apparently Screve sails under the flag of San Francisco Yacht Club, as well as LISOT.

Full details, including results by division - including many other JSALIS sailors - and video links are at the Coral Reef YC site.

Teen's First Ocean Race

It's summer in Australia, now, so we notice more news about juniors in sailboats from the the southern hemisphere than from our cold and snowy area.

Here is a story about a 15 year old who is going on his first ocean race. How did he get started? He sailed radio-controlled model boats to learn tactics and racing rules.

Read full details at this link.