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Tufts Jumbos Sailing
The Tufts University Sailing Team represents Tufts University in the intercollegiate sport of sailing. They are members of the Intercollegiate Sailing Association (ICSA), the governing body for collegiate sailing, and compete at the New England Intercollegiate Sailing Association (NEISA). Led by head coach Johnny Norfleet since 2023, who took the reins from Ken Legler after an illustrious 43-year career at Tufts, the team is one of the most successful in the history of college sailing. National championships The team holds 28 National Championships: * Dinghy Championships (5): 1976, 1980, 1981, 1997, 2001 * Women's Dinghy National Championships (8): 1984, 1986, 1990, 1993, 1994, 1996, 1999, 2003 * Team Racing National Championships (6): 1976 (with NEISA), 1984, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996 * Men's Single-handed National Championships (5): 1975 (Altreuter), 1976 (McCreary), 1980 (Johnstone), 1993 (Mendelblatt), 1995 (Bischoff) * Women's Single-handed National Championships (3): 1995 ( ... [...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] |
