Author: Paul Townsend

The team will have two regattas at Baseline lake in April. The Big Team team race will be April 7-8 and the Women’s Qualifiers will be April 14-15. Go Blue!

Our U of M team has two new captains for 2018: Amy Baer and Austin Haag. Amy is a junior studying Computer Science, and Austin is a sophomore in the Ross School of Business. They have both been heavily involved with the team the past few years and looking forward to leading the team.

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Michigan Sailing Club is again hosting the Huron River Watershed Council Baseline Lake Swim on Sunday, July 9th, 8:30 a.m. The swim is one mile and takes approximately an hour to swim across the lake and back. Swimmers can also do the 1-mile loop twice for a greater challenge. Swimmers must be able to swim one mile to participate in this river swim. Refreshments and good company will be available afterwards.

Here is the sign-up link:  http://www.hrwc.org/events/eventbaselineswim/

On April 8-9 the team hosted the MCSA Women's Conference Championship. We had eight teams from the conference competing for top four in order to qualify for Women's Nationals. More here.....

On November 6th, 29 skippers will leave Les Sables-d'Olonne in France and race around the world solo, non-stop, and without assistance. Vendee Globe is raced every four years and last time it took the winner 78 days to complete. More information.

Please join us at Baseline Lake in Dexter. Come out to the club for a introductory sailboat ride and tour. Learn at your own pace. More information.

Congrats to our sailors for taking first at the Cary-Price Memorial Regatta for the fifth year in a row! Ohio University came in second and Michigan State University came in third. Thanks to all the teams that came out to sail and thanks to all our volunteers for their help! Full Scoring Summary

The team qualified for Team Race and Fleet Race nationals at the MCSA Nationals Qualifier Regatta. Way to Go Blue!

After three years of fundraising, the University of Michigan Sailing Team reached the first half of our $200,000 Capital Campaign goal and purchased a brand new fleet of twelve FJs. The boats, scheduled to be delivered from Zim within the next week, can’t come soon enough; the team’s 420s (which are older than their freshman recruits) are on their last legs.
For more information about their capital campaign, check out their website: U of M Sailing

The U of M Sailing Team hosted the Big Ten Team Regatta last October. Here is a great video of the racing and our lake.


Thank you to Zach from the team for this incredible video!