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The Sailing Museum and National Sailing Hall of Fame is a nonprofit educational organization that promotes sailing and racing by recognizing individuals who have contributed to the sport, highlighting sailing's contribution to the American culture; and demonstrating its value as a hands-on tool for teaching math and science. The organization ...
The American Sailboat Hall of Fame is a defunct hall of fame honoring 26 production sailboats built-in the United States. [1] [2] The hall of fame was established in 1994 by Sail America, a trade association for the U.S. sailing industry, to recognize ingenuity in designs by American boat builders. [1] [2] The last year of induction was 2004. [3]
Full Sail University is a private for-profit university in Winter Park, Florida. [4] It was formerly a recording studio in Ohio named Full Sail Productions [5] and Full Sail Center for the Recording Arts. [6] The school moved to Florida in 1980, began offering bachelor's degrees in 2005, [7] and began offering online degrees in 2007. [8]
To mark the 100 anniversary of the International Sailing Federation, the ISAF Sailing Hall of Fame was launched in 2007 to celebrate the persons across the world who have achieved greatness in the sport of sailing. Sailors will be inducted into the Hall of Fame every third year of the Executive Committee's tenure.
David Adams Curtis (born June 22, 1946 in Marblehead, Massachusetts) is an American sailor and sail maker. [2] [3] As a sailor he competed at the highest level in many National and International classes. He won the World Championships in the Etchells severn times and was second six time.
Tan was inducted into the Full Sail University Hall of Fame in 2009. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] As of 2009, sales of albums and singles sold in the US with Tan listed in the credits as a mixer, engineer, remixer or producer totaled over 220 million.
Harvard and Yale held a sailing event in 1911, [2] [3] but this was a long-distance 'cruise' rather than a fleet or team race, and only one Yale yacht attended the event. . Organized intercollegiate fleet racing began in 1928 between just a few schools in Eight-Metres for the Oliver Hay Trophy, now known as the McMilla
The Hall of Fame's museum, a division of the Herreshoff Marine Museum, features plaques of the inductees and permanent and temporary exhibitions of artifacts related to the America's Cup. [2] The museum's library contains one of the largest collections of manuscripts and books related to the America's Cup and yachting history.