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Brown Bears Sailing
The Brown University sailing team is a varsity intercollegiate athletic team of Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, United States. The team is a member of the New England Intercollegiate Sailing Association, which is part of the Inter-Collegiate Sailing Association. National championships In 1991, Brown University became the first Ivy League University to win the Leonard M. Fowle Trophy for best overall collegiate team. In addition, Brown has won 7 national championships: *2 Dinghy National Championships (1942 and 1948) *5 Women’s Dinghy National Championships (1985, 1988, 1989, 1998 and 2019) Sailors Ragna Agerup was named Women's College Sailor of the Year in 2019, and Ted Turner was inducted into the America's Cup Hall of Fame in 1993 and the National Sailing Hall of Fame in 2011. Glen Foster in 1972; Kris Stookey in 1996, Kevin Hall and Katie McDowell in 2004; and Ragna Agerup in 2016, are Olympic sailors from Brown. Fleet The fleet consists of 18 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Burgee
A burgee is a distinguishing flag, regardless of its shape, of a recreational boating organization. In most cases, they have the shape of a pennon, pennant. Etiquette Yacht clubs and their members may fly their club's burgee while under way and at anchor, day or night. Sailing vessels may fly the burgee either from the main masthead or from a halyard under the lowermost starboard spreader. Most powerboats (i.e. those lacking any mast or having a single mast) fly the burgee off a short staff at the bow; two-masted power vessels fly the burgee at the foremast. Flag officers The Yacht club#Organization, officers of a yacht club may fly various burgees appropriate to their rank: for example, the commodore may fly a swallow-tailed version of the club burgee (and the vice- and rear-commodores the same, but distinguished by the addition of one or two balls respectively at the Canton (flag), canton). A past-commodore may also be given a distinctively-shaped flag.'Flags and Signals' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ted Turner
Robert Edward "Ted" Turner III (born November 19, 1938) is an American entrepreneur, television producer, media proprietor, and philanthropist. He founded the Cable News Network (CNN), the first 24-hour United States cable news, cable news channel. In addition, he founded WPCH-TV, WTBS, which pioneered the superstation concept in cable television, which later became TBS (U.S. TV channel), TBS. As a philanthropist, he gave $1 billion to create the United Nations Foundation, a public charity to broaden U.S. support for the UN. Turner serves as Chair (official), Chairman of the United Nations Foundation board of directors. Additionally, in 2001, Turner co-founded the Nuclear Threat Initiative with US Senator Sam Nunn (D-GA). NTI is a non-partisan organization dedicated to reducing global reliance on, and preventing the proliferation of nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons. He currently serves as Co-Chairman of the Board of Directors. Turner's media empire began with his fat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edgewood Yacht Club
Edgewood Yacht Club is an historic yacht club in Cranston, Rhode Island at 3 Shaw Avenue. The Edgewood Yacht Club was founded in 1889 and incorporated in 1902. Clubhouses A fire in 1908 destroyed the original building, and the structure was rebuilt that same year. The club was constructed by Murphy, Hindle & Wright in 1908 in a shingle style. The building was constructed on pilings over the Providence River, and is especially notable for having survived the storm surge that accompanied the 1938 Hurricane, as well as the one that occurred during Hurricane Carol in 1954. The clubhouse was added to the National Register of Historic Places on February 23, 1989. The entire building was destroyed again by fire during the early morning hours of Wednesday, January 12, 2011. The fire began shortly after 4:00 am EST by lightning during an intense snowstorm; by 5:30 am, the building was gone. No one was injured, and officers say they plan to rebuild. What was left of the building was ra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vanguard 15
The Vanguard 15 is an American sailing dinghy that was designed by Bob Ames as a one-design racer and first built in 1992.Sherwood, Richard M.: ''A Field Guide to Sailboats of North America, Second Edition'', pages 54-55. Houghton Mifflin Company, 1994. Production The design was built by Team Vanguard in the United States and later by LaserPerformance, but is no longer in production. Design The Vanguard 15 is a recreational sailboat, built predominantly of fiberglass. It has a fractional sloop rig with aluminum spars, a raked stem, a vertical transom, a transom-hung rudder controlled by a tiller and a retractable daggerboard. It displaces and is capable of planing upwind. The boat has a draft of with the daggerboard extended and with it retracted, allowing beaching or ground transportation on a trailer or car roof rack. For sailing the design is equipped with a boom vang and the mainsail and jib have windows for improved visibility. The halyards are external ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laser (dinghy)
The Laser is a class of Single-handed sailing, single-handed, one-design dinghy sailing, sailing dinghies using a common hull design with three interchangeable rigs of different sail areas, appropriate to a given combination of wind strength and crew weight. Bruce Kirby (yachts), Bruce Kirby designed the Laser in 1970 with an emphasis on simplicity and performance. The Laser is a widely produced class of dinghies. As of 2018, there were more than 215,000 boats worldwide. It is an international class with sailors in 120 countries, and an Olympic class since 1996. Its wide acceptance is attributable to its robust construction, simple rig and ease of sailing that offer competitive racing due to tight class association controls which eliminate differences in hull, sails, and equipment. The International Laser Class Association (ILCA) defines the specifications and competition rules for the boat, which is officially referred to as the ILCA Dinghy, due to a trademark dispute. Other ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
420 (dinghy)
The International 420 Dinghy is a sailing dinghy popular for racing and teaching. The hull is fiberglass with internal buoyancy tanks. The 420 has a bermuda rig and an optional spinnaker and trapeze. It has a large sail-area-to-weight ratio, and is designed to plane easily. It can be rigged to be sailed single-handed or double-handed. The 420 is an International class recognized by World Sailing. The name refers to the boat's length of . History The International 420 was designed by Christian Maury. The class developed rapidly in France, being adopted nationally as a youth trainer for the larger Olympic class International 470. By the late 1960s the class was adopted by a few UK university sailing clubs for training and team racing. The 420 was designed specifically to be easier to handle than its larger higher-performance cousin, the 470. Construction The class adopted a policy of "prudent evolution" so as to allow development without making existing dinghies obsolete. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
LaserPerformance
LaserPerformance is an Anglo-American dinghy manufacturer- the world's largest producer of small sailboats. LaserPerformance manufactures many sailboats including: Laser, Sunfish, Laser Pico, Bug, Laser Vago, Laser Bahia, Club FJ, Club 420, Z420, Vanguard 15, Dart 16, Funboat and Optimists. They are most well known for the ''Sunfish'' and The Laser – a single handed boat which is sailed in the Summer Olympic Games. Over the last 60 years, the Sunfish has become the most popular recreational sailboat in history. The Laser is widely accepted as the world’s most popular adult & youth racing class. LaserPerformance is also well known for its Sunfish Stand Up Paddleboards and Seitech dollies and racking systems. Background On a phone call between Canadians Bruce Kirby and Ian Bruce in 1969, the pair discussed the possibility of a car-topped dinghy (a boat small enough to be carried on a roof rack of a typical car) for a line of camping equipment. Kirby resultantly sket ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Flying Junior
The International FJ is a Dutch sailboat that was designed by Uus Van Essen and Conrad Gülcher as a trainer and one design racer, first built in 1956. The boat was initially called the Flying Dutchman Junior (after the Flying Dutchman one design racer), as it was designed as a trainer for that Olympic sailing class boat. It was later called the Flying Junior. In 1980 the name was again officially changed to the International FJ. The design became a World Sailing accepted International class in 1972-73. Production The design has been built by a large number of companies including Grampian Marine and Paceship Yachts in Canada, Chantier Naval Costantini in France, Alpa Yachts, Centro Nautico Adriatico, Comar Yachts and Nautivela in Italy, Advance Sailboat Corp, W. D. Schock Corp, Whitecap Composites and Zim Sailing in the United States. 4,600 boats have been built. W. D. Schock Corp records indicate that they built 70 boats between 1968 and 1972. It remains in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Katie McDowell
Katherine E. McDowell is an American sailor who sailed with Isabelle Kinsolving to take fifth place in the women's 470 class competition at the 2004 Summer Olympics. Sailing history McDowell started sailing at age nine in sunfish and went on to sail in high school at the Moses Brown School where she graduated in 1993. McDowell started sailing in college at Tufts University and then transferred to Brown University where she led the team that won the Women’s College Nationals Championship in 1998. McDowell was named to the Women All-American sailing team in 1994, 1995, and 1996 while sailing at Tufts University and then in 1997 and 1998 while sailing at Brown University; in 1997 she was also named to a Co-ed All American sailor. She won the ICSA Women's Singlehanded National Championship ICSA Women's Singlehanded National Championship is one of the seven Inter-Collegiate Sailing Association National Championships The Inter-Collegiate Sailing Association (ICSA) holds National ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kevin Hall (sailor)
Kevin A. Hall (born in Germany) is a sailor who has represented the United States of America at the Summer Olympics and has competed in multiple America's Cup races. Personal life Hall graduated from Brown University with degrees in mathematics and French literature. He was also made a member of the Brown Athletic Hall of Fame. He battled testicular cancer when he was 19 and again when he was 22, resulting in the removal of his testicles. He was labeled manic depressive in 1989. He no longer identifies with the label. He has been very open about his relationship with The Truman Show delusion. Journalist and author Mary Pilon's book "The Kevin Show", released in March 2018, details Hall's struggles with mental illness throughout his life. Sailing career He was the 1986 Singlehanded Youth World Champion and the 1987 U.S. Youth Doublehanded Sailing Championship. He was twice Laser national champion. He sailed a Finn in the 1992 Olympic team trials and finished eighth. He atte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kris Stookey
Kris Stookey (born June 30, 1969) is an American yacht racer who competed in the 1996 Summer Olympics. Sailing history Stookey sailed in college at Brown University where she won All-American honors four times, first as a Women's All American in 1988, then as Honorable Mention in the Coed Group in 1989, and finally as All American in 1990 and 1991. In 1988, Stookey won the Madeleine Cup for winning skipper of the 'A' division in the Inter-Collegiate Sailing Association's Women's Championship. In 1991, Stookey helped the Brown team to earning the Leonard M. Fowle Trophy for the best overall collegiate team in sailing, the first time an Ivy League college won the award. Stookey placed second at the 1992 Olympic trials in the 470 class sailing with Louise Van Voorhis, and won the 1996 Olympic 470 trials again sailing with Van Voorhis. They went on to win fourth place at the 1996 Summer Olympics. Awards and honors Stookey graduated high school from Kent School Kent Sch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Glen Foster
Glen Seward Foster II (August 14, 1930 – October 1, 1999) was an American sailor. He won a bronze medal in the '' Tempest class'' with Peter Dean at the 1972 Summer Olympics The 1972 Summer Olympics (), officially known as the Games of the XX Olympiad () and commonly known as Munich 1972 (german: München 1972), was an international multi-sport event held in Munich, West Germany, from 26 August to 11 September 1972. .... In 1971, when he won the national and world championships in the Tempest Class. References External links * * * 1930 births 1999 deaths American male sailors (sport) Tempest class sailors 5.5 Metre class sailors Olympic bronze medalists for the United States in sailing Sailors at the 1972 Summer Olympics – Tempest Medalists at the 1972 Summer Olympics World champions in sailing for the United States World Champions in 5.5 Metre People from Orange, New Jersey Deaths from esophageal cancer Brown Bears sailors {{US-yachtrac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
