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October 1991: USYRU change its name to the United States Sailing Association, Inc. and began to do business as US SAILING. 1993: US Sailing developed a comprehensive instruction program for adults to learn to sail in larger sailboats. 2019: US Sailing located its training for the US Sailing Olympic Team on Treasure Island, San Francisco [15]
American Sailing is the predominant standards bearer and codifier in the arena of recreational sailing education in the Americas and beyond. The organization was founded in 1983 by television producer Lenny Shabes, who felt there was no recognized educational system in place to learn the sport of sailing.
Tall Ships America (TSA), previously known as the American Sail Training Association (ASTA), is the largest sail training association in the world and a founding member of Sail Training International.
Sea Education Association (SEA) is a private, nonprofit educational organization. Founded in 1971 by Corwith Cramer, Jr. [1] SEA operates two sailing ships traveling throughout both the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. SEA is based on Cape Cod in the oceanographic research community of Woods Hole, Massachusetts. [2]
Sailing School Vessel (SSV): Inspected under Title 46, Subchapter R of the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR). An SSV is a vessel of less than 500 gross tons carrying six or more sailing school students or instructors, primarily propelled by sail, and operated by a nonprofit educational organization exclusively for the purpose of sailing education.
The Inter-Collegiate Sailing Association of North America (ICSA) is a volunteer organization that serves as the governing authority for all sailing competition at colleges and universities throughout the United States and in some parts of Canada. It was founded in 1937 as the Inter-Collegiate Yacht Racing Association, and changed to it current ...
Maine Maritime athletic teams are the Mariners. The academy is a member of the Division III level of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), primarily competing in the North Atlantic Conference (NAC) for most of its sports since the 1996–97 academic year; [4] with the football team playing in the New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference (NEWMAC), and the sailing teams ...
US Sailing annually presents the TImothea Larr Award for "outstanding contribution to the sport". [17] Larr has written articles and books that train sailors and power boaters, [ 18 ] [ 19 ] worked on the National On-Water Standards for boating safety, [ 20 ] and served as chair of the Junior Yacht Racing Association of Long Island Sound (1976 ...