The 2014 Golden Bear Regatta was sailed out of Treasure Island Sailing Center for the third year this past weekend.  The 64 new sets of PCISA sails arrived in California just in time and the sailors had the privilege of hoisting brand new sails right out of the plastic bags on Saturday morning.  With the new sails the PCISA allowed 64 teams to participate even though the regular regatta cap is 60.  The Bay Area Youth Sailing Board worked hard to install all the floating docks for launching and rotations, since TISC keeps them in the parking lot during the winter.

Video highlights attached!   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-D_LGd8-G54

Find Scores for the Golden Bear at: scores.hssailing.org

After attending the US Sailing’s leadership conference last week in San Diego with 650+ attendees, I came away with a lot of ideas so we can improve junior sailing from the high school sailing point of view. I believe we fit in a box that is simple and structured. We are not trying to change any aspect of youth sailing other than creating a team sport that becomes important for high school students. The message from the conference was to learn as much as you can but come away with 5 key items that can use in your organization

Gill NA has a great scholastic program to get ISSA sailors in the right gear for the season