This weekend six of us traveled up to Madison for the Wisco Three-Way regatta. Three-way is a unique regatta that mixes 420 racing and Tech Dinghy racing. It was a slow weekend for wind despite the fact that it was hosted by Red Bull. Emily Fontaine sailed the Techs while Travis Cottle and Erica Haybron [ Read More ]
NUST is excited to announce our first annual Spring Fundraiser! The event will take place this coming Sunday, April 21, from 1-4 pm at Haymarket Pub & Brewery. Team members, alumni, friends, and local sailors will all gather to raise money for our entirely student-run organization and enjoy an afternoon of mingling, dining, and enjoying [ Read More ]
We had an awesome time sailing down in Tampa, Florida a couple weeks ago. While the weather was a bit colder than we would have hoped (around mid-50s some mornings!), we still got some great sailing in. Under the careful direction of our new coach Stephanie Roble and NUST alumni Geoff Pedrick, we worked on [ Read More ]
Dear admitted students: First of all, congratulations on your admittance to Northwestern! My name is Jacob. I’m from Washington State, and I sailed a ton around the NWISA district during high school, and loved it. I applied to college knowing I wanted to sail in college, and I chose to come to Northwestern and sail [ Read More ]
The McIntyre team race regatta at Stanford got off to a slow start saturday morning, but after an illuminating rules panel by the umpires, the wind filled in and racing began. In winds ranging from still to full hike, team racing was consistently competitive, and many races were in question until the last few boat [ Read More ]
Wisconsin Team Race: November 3rd & 4th. NUST sent two teams and many alternates to up to the University of Wisconsin for the for a bit of lively team racings. The teams arrived to a cold Madison morning with snow flurries in the air. Luckily the snow held off and the sky cleared allowing us to get [ Read More ]
*Day 1: *Saturday’s Single Handed Championship started in the low 40s with breeze building from the N, NW. Boats were on the water by 10 a.m. with puffs in the excess of 20 knots. The breeze continued to oscillate throughout the day, clocking back and forth within a range of 50 degrees to either side [ Read More ]
On Friday, May 11th, Geoff Pedrick, Kim Wieczner, Michael Cornew, Katherine Nickele, Noah Aldonas, and Matt Zampa boarded a plane for Washington D.C. for the ICSA National Semifinals hosted by the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland. They got up early Saturday morning and headed to beautiful sunny Annapolis, anxious to find out whether the [ Read More ]
On Friday, April 13, 8 members of the Northwestern Sailing Team, plus our coach Sam, filled two cars and headed off to Grosse Pointe, MI, for the 2012 MCSA Coed Fleet Racing Championship. Despite the ominous date, and the fact that this weekend was the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, we were [ Read More ]
Every spring we host a regatta known through the MCSA as “Wet Your Willie.” This year, Travis Cottle, Jane Jones, David Kluger, and Mariam Al Askari sailing for Northwestern. On Saturday, sailors were greeted to a nice sunny morning with temperatures in the low 60′s all day. We raced on a modified windward-leeward, twice around. 8 [ Read More ]