The two divisions of 16 Lasers raced out of the Mt. Baker Rowing and Sailing Center on Seattle's Lake Washington the last weekend in October, marking the first time the Northwest district has hosted an ISSA national championship In the radial division eight races were completed in Saturday's high winds with racing called off (for some too soon) when fatigue became a concern. At the mid-point in the heavy conditions Anderson-Mitterling, Eric Oppen from Orono (MN) HS, and Notre Dame HS of Lawrenceville, NJ, Jeff Boanni skippering, led the fleet before Anderson-Mitterling moved ahead, cementing the championship with a first place in the final race. Oppen ended up second and Tabor Academy with Alexander Kirkland sailing was third. Indicative of the tightness of the competition was the fact that seven skippers shared first places in the nine-race series.

In the full-rig division The Bishop's School also started to pull away from the fleet at the mid-point as Andrew Campbell surmounted strong challenges from Toms River HS's Clay Johnson, Clearwater HS's Zack Railey, and veteran Cressy competitors University of San Diego HS's Brian Lake, The Asset's School's Andrew Lewis (1999 Cressy winner) and Southern Regional HS's Spencer Weber (2000 Cressy full -rig champion). As with the radial-rig division no one school had a lock on first places; six had at least one victory with Campbell having three. Since ISSA regattas are open to both young women and men competing on an equal footing, women were sailing in both divisions, a trend ISSA hopes will continue to grow.

Northwest district directors John DeMeyer and John Pope with major support from Carol Pope put on a grand regatta. Vanguard Sailboats, an ISSA Partner, provided the fleet of 32 brand new Lasers for the event. PRO was Nick Taylor using Seattle YC's committee boat Portage Bay. Area H (East) RAJ Dick Lootens served as Chief Judge.

ON THE WATER AT THE CRESSY CHAMPIONSHIPS

PHOTO CREDITS: PHOTO SEA

2000 CRESSY CHAMPIONSHIPS RESULTS
LASER RADIAL DIVISION

LASER FULL-RIG DIVISION

ISSA THANKS RANDY REPASS [back to index]
Randy Repass and his wife Sally-Christine Rodgers made a personal donation to ISSA which materially assisted the publication of this year's Directory-Yearbook. This was in addition to the program of partnership with his company, WEST MARINE, which has benefited so many new school teams with store vouchers and existing teams with Port Supply discount cards.

This understanding and non-invasive partnership is precisely the support ISSA seeks for our sailors, one in which the sailors can freely enjoy their sport in a simple environment of friendship and fun. Ñ LAW

PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE [back to index]

Dear Sailors and Friends,
In this first school year of the new century we look forward to even greater participation in the sport of sailing by school teams. Not only are more young sailors discovering the fun of school sailing, many of their friends and schoolmates want to be involved. More and more teams are teaching new sailors was well as improving the skills of those who already are involved.

Local leagues are flourishing, especially in areas where there is accelerated development. In South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, southern Chesapeake Bay, and on the Gulf Coast new leagues are taking shape, and qualifier series for districts and Nationals are becoming more the norm.

And sailing is starting to flourish as a two-season sport, as it is in college. We have purposely placed the Singlehanded National Championship (Cressy Trophy) in the Fall, and the developmental Great Oaks Regatta is now established at Southern YC (LA) the second weekend in November. This allows singlehanders to participate in all of ISSA's national level events, and new teams which develop quickly to qualify for all the championships.

These signs and the growing realization among Optimist sailors that school sailing is the next logical step in pursuing their passion for sailing and the fun of competing with their friends encourage us to the hope that this will be another banner year. It's really about participation.

In a final note: we are constantly told that young women are dropping out of sailing as they mature. That's not true of school sailing. In fact, they either keep going or come back when they see their friends involved. Perhaps it's the sense of participation for all, together in sailing, together in the boats and ashore. Think about it.

What a great year we have ahead.

Larry White, President

NEW DATE AND VENUE FOR ISSA ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING DEEMED SUCCESSFUL [back to index]
For the first time the annual meeting of ISSA was not in the Spring and not in New England. The ISSA membership voted last Spring to move the time of the meeting nearer to the beginning of the school year and to sites outside of New England in recognition of a nationwide membership.

In keeping with that decision, the 2000-2001 annual meeting was held September 30 at the Chicago YC and the consensus of those present was that the new mandated date of the last Saturday in September was a good thing and that moving the venue looks good but needs further meetings to prove itself. The West Coast and in particular New Orleans were mentioned as two possible sites for the annual meeting next year.

Reports of the officers and districts were accepted as well as a revised budget for 2000-2001. The current Directors including the officers were re-elected with the exception of Treasurer Nancy Healy whose resignation was reluctantly accepted. The members elected Secretary Roger Rawlings to serve as Secretary/Treasurer.

The attending members discussed at length the scheduled rotation of sites for the national championships both in consideration of the Cressy now being held in the Fall and in conjunction with the collegiate singlehanded championship. Tim Hogan, ISSA Vice President and a representative of PCISA noted the seeming inequity of the rotation for West Coast teams under the existing schedule from 2000-2006.

The members discussed the prospect that the 2002 Cressy (next Fall) would be in Kingston, Ontario because that is the site for the collegiate championship. The members voiced concern that a Canadian regatta would have no local school. Vice President Ray Teborek was named to follow up on arrangements for the ISSA event.

A joint Trustee and Development Committee consisting of Vice president Teborek, Jeff Spranger and Advisory Council Chairman Bruce McPherson was appointed by the members. The members recognized the fact that ISSA has grown dramatically in recent years and needs to consider future development, fund raising, and protection of assets. The Committee will report regularly to the Executive Committee.

SAISA Representative Tom Monkus urged ISSA to better recognize new member schools and the members agreed that the Secretary/Treasurer will formulate a welcoming letter. Copies of the Directory and Procedural Rules are currently mailed to new members when their dues are received.

The members voted to continue ISSA's request to US SAILING that ISSA champions receive automatic bids to US SAILING national championships.

Kevin Baker reported on his progress developing a video that promotes and describes ISSA programs. The members expressed strong support for his visions.

Prior to the call to order those attending had a fruitful discussion on the difference among districts and how best to integrate those differences and learn from each other. For example, of the districts represented in the discussion only New England has the compact geography that permits regular inter-school dual team racing meets. The District representatives taking part agreed to provide details of their structure for a report to be compiled by Secretary Rawlings.

EXECUTIVE AND DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEES
FOLLOW UP ON ISSA ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING[back to index]
On November 15 the ISSA Executive Committee and the three appointed members of the new Development Committee met at the home of President White in Connecticut. Before the meeting the Development Committee/Trustees met to discuss future fund raising and review the current ISSA financial situation. The committee plans to submit a fund raising proposal to the Board of Directors before its January meeting.

The Executtive Committee granted approval for a team from a large (600 student) accredited "home school" organization and for a combined team from girls and boys schools that share a single administration and sports program.

The Directors modified the schedule of sites for national championships and moved the 2002 Mallory to PCISA from NESSA and a committee is working on revising the schedule for 2003 and beyond to correct an inequity that penalized teams from the West Coast. The revised schedule will be submitted to the Board of Directors.

The Committee voted to continue the overseas program of racing this summer but not to seek continued USSF funding. Plans for an international regatta are starting to take shape but based on friendly participation, not as a championship. This will permit mixed teams from different schools to compete.

The Executive Committee announced that there will be a open Board meeting of ISSA at the NSPS meeting in San Diego as well as presentations on school sailing programs and a coaching seminar.

The date and venue for the 2002 Cressy regatta was approved. The singlehanded championship will be at Kingston, Ontario, Canada October 13-14, 2001. The date is two weeks before the traditional last weekend in October in order to have better weather prospects and will be one week before the collegiate championship at the same site and with the same Vanguard-supplied boats. The ISSA event will again have two divisions, a Laser radial-rig and Laser full-rig with district allocations based on membership totals as of June 1, 2001.

NANCY HEALY STEPS DOWN AFTER 15 YEARS
OF SERVICE TO ISSA [back to index]
Some 15 years ago Nancy Healy founded the East Lyme (CT) HS sailing team with full support of the school. So began her association with ISSA. This Fall she has had to step down as advisor-coach due to the press of family matters Ñ she now has four grandchildren. The East Lyme HS team goes on under the guidance of Erica Booth, a former team member now graduated.

An innovative and energetic thinker and doer, Nancy sparked much of the development which has led to the growth of school sailing. A force in the popularization of sailing as a school sport in New England and nationally, Nancy served as a co-President of NESSA in a time of divisiveness and on the ISSA Board since 1988 as a Director, Secretary, Treasurer, and Vice-President, changing roles as the needs of ISSA changed. Her influence for the good of sailors carried the day.

NESSA recognized and honored her service in its singlehanded championship and its Nancy Healy Trophy on which the names of the champions are inscribed.

Thank you, Nancy, for your incomparable and selfless service.

FLORIDA SCHOOL WINS SECOND
GREAT OAKS REGATTA [back to index]
The Community School of Naples, FL with Ryan and Cullen Shaughnessy sailing won the second annual ISSA New School Invitational Regatta for the Great Oaks Trophy sailed in New Orleans at Southern YC on Lake Pontchartrain the second weekend in November. In all, SAISA district turned in a notable performance with all four of its entries in the top eight places.

The racing was tight the first day of racing with St. Anthony's HS of Huntington,NY, Academic Magnet HS of Charleston, SC, and Community School bunched at the top of the 20-school fleet. The second day Community pulled away, help in large part by taking four first places in the final 10 races. St. Anthony HS ended up second and Academic Magnet HS, third just one point behind St. Anthony's. Success for The Community School was not unexpected. With Ryan Shaughnessy as skipper, the school was runner-up in the inaugural Great Oaks Regatta last year.

The team from St. Anthony's HS consisted of John Storck, Kristen Rieder, Eric Storck, and Kaitlin Storck. David O'Reilly and Diane Haynsworth sailed for Academic Magnet HS.

The Great Oaks Regatta is open to school teams that have been in existence for just three years or less and is designed to encourage development of fledgling school sailing programs. Participation in the regatta is determined by district allocations and some entries are by elimination regattas sailed within districts. This year the 20 competing schools came from 13 states with sailors from as far away as Hawaii and Vermont. Reflecting the newness of the teams, the event is sailed in just one division with each school having a single skipper and crew.

For the two-day regatta the wind varied from three to 15 knots with lumpy lake seas. PRO Lea Fiske managed to get in 20 races in 420s loaned by Southern YC, Tulane U and U. of New Orleans. The event was organized by SEISA District Director Chris Clement and the team of Marc and Barbara Le Blanc.

Southern YC will host the 2001 Great Oaks Regatta November 10-11, 2001.

GREAT OAKS REGATTA MEDALISTS Medal winners at the Great Oaks Regatta, left to right: Ryan and Cullen Shaughnessy, Gold Medalists; Erik, John, and Katy Storck and Kristen Rieder, Silver Medalists; and David O'Reilly and Diane Haynsworth, Bronze Medalists Photo Credit: CHRIS CLEMENT	GREAT OAKS REGATTA RECEIVES ITS OWN TROPHY Barbara White, wife of ISSA President Larry White, presented ISSA with the Great Oaks Trophy: "In memory of Joe Becker and his Great Oaks Camp on Saturday Pond in Maine and in honor of Larry White who learned to sail there." The trophy is of finished oak with bronze plates.

RESULTS OF THE 2000 GREAT OAKS REGATTA

COACHES SEMINARS:
SCHEDULE ONE BEFORE NEXT SEASON [back to index]
Perhaps the most beneficial program ISSA undertakes for young sailors is the coaching seminars it presents. Experienced coaches such as Pat Healy, Roy Williams, and Roger Rawlings conduct the seminars which are provided at no cost to those willing to host them. Participation includes qualification for the high school module of the Level 3 US SAILING coaching certification.

The typical seminar outlines the structure of school sailing, the form of the ISSA procedural rules, and the levels of interscholastic competition. It goes on to look closely at the role of the team coach: the ethics of coaching, coaching rules and protests, and running practices with drills, as well as race management.

Districts, leagues, or even just groups of schools can host a coaching seminar. The host arranges the venue, promotes the seminar, and may, if the seminar presenter has to travel a distance, be asked to provide overnight accommodations. ISSA provides the leader of the seminar at no cost to the host and requires the hosts make attending the seminar free of charge to coaches.

To get more details or arrange for a ISSA coaching seminar, contact ISSA - Roger Rawlings, rawling@snet.net.

NOTICES OF RACE FOR 2001 ISSA CHAMPIONSHIPS:
MALLORY AND BAKER TROPHIES[back to index]
2001 ISSA NATIONAL DOUBLEHANDED FLEET CHAMPIONSHIP
FOR THE CLIFFORD MALLORY TROPHY
WHEN: May 11-13, 2001

WHERE: College of Charleston Sailing Center, Mt. Pleasant, SC

HOST: South Atlantic Interscholastic Sailing Association (SAISA)

BOATS: Vanguard Collegiate 420s RULES: The 1997-2000 Racing Rules of Sailing will remain in effect.

TEAMS: 20 teams with two doublehanded crews each for a minimum of four and a maximum of eight team members who shall be from the same school that is a member of ISSA and accompanied by a designated team leader/chaperone recognized by the school in that capacity.

COACHING: Team leaders, chaperones, advisors, coaches and other support personnel shall not go afloat in the sailing area May 12-13 unless with permission of the Regatta Chairman. Team members, coaches, and spectators will be able to watch the racing from the Marina outer pier or from the aircraft carrier Yorktown.

QUALIFICATION: Entries will be determined by qualifying within districts and the number of entries from each district will conform to allocations set by ISSA.

ENTRY FORMS AND FEES: Entry forms must be filed with the Regatta Chairman by May 1 (postmarked by April 30) unless the Chairman is notified of a delay because of later qualifying regatta results. An entry fee of $35 must accompany entry. There is no damage deposit. Registration: 1200-1800 May 11 at College of Charleston Sailing Center Note: a list of area accommodations is included with the Notice of Race.

PRACTICE: Boats will be available for practice 1200-1800 Friday May 11 after registration. RACING: The first warning signal will be 1030 Saturday May 12 after a mandatory skippers' meeting at 0930. The warning signal Sunday, May 13 will be 1000. No race will be started after 1600 unless a sail-off is needed. The racing area will be in Charleston Harbor near the Charleston Harbor Marina. Racing will be in two divisions of 20 boats each.

CONTACTS: Regatta Chairman, John L. Gervais, III, 843-556-4226; e-mail: ABRAC@AOL.COM Principal Race Officer, George. K. Wood, 843-795-5913, e-mail woodg@cofc.edu Chief Judge, Burton Howell, 912-897-5780, e-mail aweigh@worldnet.att.net SAISA District Director, Tom Monkus, 727-821-2626, tpmonkus@saisa.org

2001 ISSA NATIONAL TEAM RACING CHAMPIONSHIP
FOR THE TOBY BAKER TROPHY
WHEN: May 25-27, 2001

WHERE: Tabor Academy, Marion, MA

HOST: New England Schools Sailing Association (NESSA)

BOATS: Collegiate 420s supplied by Tabor Academy and Beverly YC

RULES: The 1997-2000 Racing Rules of Sailing will remain in effect. Appendix D Observer System will be used as in past years.

TEAMS: 12 teams with three doublehanded crews each for a minimum of six and a maximum of eight team members who shall be from the same school that is a member of ISSA and accompanied by a designated team leader/chaperone recognized by the school in that capacity.

QUALIFICATION: Entries will be determined by qualifying within districts and the number of entries from each district will conform to allocations set by ISSA.

ENTRY FORMS AND FEES: Entry forms must be filed with the Regatta Chairman by May 11 unless the Chairman is notified of a delay because of later qualifying regatta results. The entry fee is $300 that includes meal packages and racing fees plus a $300 damage deposit whose unused portion will be returned ASAP after the regatta. Registration: 1500-1800 May 25 at Tabor Academy Sailing Center Note: a list of area accommodations is included with the Notice of Race.

OPTIONAL PRACTICE: Boats will be available for practice 1500-1800 Friday May 11. RACING: Saturday and Sunday May 16-27 after a mandatory skippers' meeting at 0915. On Sunday no race will be started after 1600 unless a sail-off is needed. The racing area will be in outer Sippican Harbor on Buzzards Bay.

COACHING: Team leaders, chaperones, advisors, coaches and other support personnel shall not go afloat in the sailing area May 25-27 unless with permission of the Regatta Chairman. Coaches will be able to watch the racing from the school-ship Tabor Boy.

CONTACTS: Regatta Chairman, Rob Hurd, Director of Sailing, Tabor Academy 508-748-2955, e-mail RSHurd@aol.com Housing, Louise Nadler, 508-748-2885, e-mail LKMN123@aol.com

PRELIMINARY ALLOCATIONS SET FOR
2001 MALLORY AND BAKER CHAMPIONSHIPS [back to index]
Preliminary allocations for the 2001 Mallory fleet racing championship and Baker team racing championship have also been established. The final allocations will be based on dues received for 2000-2001 by the due date of January 1, 2001. Thus districts can increase their allocation by increasing their membership to reflect a higher proportion of the total nationwide membership. The 2001 Mallory regatta is at Charleston, SC May 12-13, 2001 and the Baker is at Tabor Academy, Marion, MA, May 26-27, 2001.

REPORTS FROM THE DISTRICTS [back to index]
PCISA
The California International Sailing Association (CISA) and the Roy Disney Sailing Fund are providing a $25,000 grant to PCISA for this year. The current plan is to purchase 50 suits of sails to be used at PCISA regattas, to assist in travel, and to aid the Hawaiian schools.

The grant is PCISA's share of $100,000 Roy Disney is giving annually for five years to CISA to support youth sailing programs in California and Hawaii in his desire to "give something back to the sport we've been privileged to be a part of."

Tim Hogan reports that PCISA expects at least 73 member schools this year. All three areas of PCISA Ñ Hawaii, SoCal, and NorCal Ñ have been running regattas this Fall with a great deal of interest. The first all-district regatta will be the Anteater December 9-10 in which 40 schools are expected to participate. Because the growth in the district has resulted in fleets that have outgrown the waters in which all-district regattas are sailed and in an effort to improve the qualify of sailing, this year the entries will be divided into Gold and Silver divisions.

Other dates on the 2000-2001 championship schedule are the Rose Bowl Regatta January 6-7 at Alamitos Bay YC, the Cardinal Regatta at Stanford February 24-25, the Gaucho Regatta March 24-25 at Santa Barbara and the PC Championship April 21-22 at Coronado YC. The team racing championship and Baker elims are at San Francisco YC April 28-29. In addition, each area will be running its own racing schedule.

PCISA eliminations for the 2001 Cressy singlehanded championship were sailed in San Diego, Richmond, and Hawaii. The two PCISA champions were Andrew Campbell of The Bishop's School in the full-rig division and Michael Anderson-Mitterling in the radial-rig division. The two went on to win the national championship.

Bill Wakeman, coach of the Newport Harbor HS team that sailed in the international school championship (BSDRA) last summer in the UK, reports that his team won the championship. The Irish team was second and the traditionally strong Sevenoaks School, third.

Bill has suggested developing a new international school championship that would move about the world. British, Irish, Czech, and US teams are already available and he sees future entries from Australia, New Zealand, and Japan. It is a proposal that ISSA will be looking at in depth in the near future.

NESSA
The New England district held its annual meeting November 5. The attending members heard that plans for the 2001 team racing championship for the Baker Trophy are well underway and that the NOR would be available by the meeting of the ISSA Executive Committee in November. One item of discussion was the banning of advisors and coaches from the sailing area without permission of the Regatta Chairman. There will be room for coaches/advisors, one from each team, on board the support ship, Tabor Academy's school-ship Tabor Boy.

The members voted to discontinue naming an all-district sailing team. For several years, partly as an experiment at the behest of the ISSA BOD, NESSA has compiled such a list with varying degrees of success and approbation.

NESSA has also created a new class of district membership called Community Member. This level allows students from different schools to sail together as a team in non-championship events as a new "marketing tool" to further help students sail competitively while they develop teams within their schools. The membership will be reviewed annually.

Check out the new NESSA website: www.highschoolsailing-ne.org/nessa.

SAISA
The district singlehanded championship and eliminations for the Cressy Regatta were held at the Clearwater YC September 23-24. Thirty four sailors representing 17 schools raced for the one district berth in the Laser radial-rig and full-rig divisions at the Cressy. Local sailors did well and went on to the national championship. Charles Fulmer sailing for Admiral Farragut Academy won the radial elims and Clearwater HS's Zachary Railey won the full-rig division. Runners-up were Pine View HS skipper Andrew Perry in the radial and Mike Hall of Admiral Farragut in the full-rig.

A total of 11 races were sailed in the weekend event with winds of 6-8 improving as the westerly sea breeze took over.

SAISA with 11 school teams seeking berths at the Great Oaks Regatta ran eliminations in October at the St. Petersburg Sailing Center. The four top finishers went to New Orleans for the Great Oak invitational where they turned in by far the best showing of any district delegation. All four wound up in the top eight and three in the top four with Community School of Naples winning the regatta.

Under the direction of District Director Tom Monkus SAISA is embarking on a plan to increase the number of member schools and the skills of their sailors. Short term this includes better communications using e-mail and web postings. In the longer term SAISA has scheduled north and south regional open regattas/scrimmages coupled with chalk sessions and review. Example: December 2-3 there will be a one-day session in the southern region at Ransom Everglades School chaired by Steve Wermus and in the north a two-day session run by College of Charleston's George Wood.

Next year the program will increase, timed to start with the Mallory Points Series. The sessions should particularly benefit newer, smaller teams that are trying to make the transition from the one-boat crew for the Great Oaks to the two-boat crews for the Mallory and Baker and for sailors moving from singlehanded to doublehanded boats. SAISA is also doubling the size of its Mallory qualifying regatta slated for April 21-22, three weeks before SAISA hosts the Mallory championship in Charleston. John Gervais, who has been highly active developing the northern region of SAISA will be event chairman for both the SAISA elims and the national championship.

On November 18 SAISA conducted an ISSA coaching seminar which included a Level 3 coaching module at the Atlanta YC. The seminar was particularly aimed at helping develop new school teams in Georgia and the Carolinas. Director for the seminar was SAISA's Rich White of the host club and the instructor was ISSA Vice President Roy Williams.

MASSA
In November District Director Bill Schneider suffered a serious heart attack, leaving MASSA activities largely in the hands of regional representatives Betty Minson in the north, Michael Spark in New Jersey, and Randy Stokes in Virginia. The Fall schedule of regattas was set at the Fall meeting of the district September 16.

Randy Stokes has been very active developing an area organization of southern Virginia schools, the Virginia Interscholastic Sailing Association (VISA),mostly around the Norfolk area. VISA has been able to schedule almost weekly area regattas through the Fall with the special help of Old Dominion and Christopher Newport Universities and there is promise of at least two sailing centers being developed with school sailing in mind. Such a busy program is bound to attract the attention of sailors in other area schools and help VISA grow.

Meanwhile, the growth of the mid-Atlantic district north (NY and NJ), central (MD and DC) and south (VISA) is generating the same type of discussion with respect to participation in all-district regattas that PCISA underwent so successfully with expansion to northern California and Hawaii and that SAISA is tackling with regions from North Carolina to southern Florida.

NWISA
The Northwest district is recovering from and savoring success with having organized its first ISSA national championship, the 2001 Cressy Regatta.

Apparently one of the problems the district has faced in attracting new school teams has been the issue of insurance. However, there seems to be some hope on the horizon. Helping District Director John DeMeyer and a elected member of the ISSA BOD is John Pope, a retired school superintendent who may be able to convince school boards and administrators that there is no more inherent risk in school sailing as a sport than there is in any other school sport. If John can get this message out, look for real growth in that corner of the country.

MWISA
As of mid-November MWISA had 24 fully accredited member schools with a number more expected to rejoin by the end of the year. Last year MWISA had 32 members and is expected to have more than that this year. Better still is that increasingly member schools seem to be more firmly established with more support and larger team rosters.

Chris Mitchell reports that the district eliminations for the Cressy regatta were sailed off the Belmont Harbor run by the Chicago YC in blustery conditions in which steep seas presented a real challenge to competitors and safety launch drivers as well. There were 14 entries in the full-rig division, 22 in the radial-rig.

Loyola Academy's Vincent Porter won the full-rig division and Cory Smith of Orono HS was second. In the radial-rig division Orono HS with Eric Oppen skippering won and Chris Beckham of the University of Marquette HS was runner-up. The four represented MWISA at the Cressy singlehanded national championship.

Work is underway on the Spring schedule. The tentative date for the MWISA doublehanded championship is April 28-29 at Monroe Harbor Chicago with both Chicago YC and Columbia YC hosting. The prior weekend Chicago YC is tentatively planning to host its Icebreaker Regatta, which is a doublehanded "high school style" regatta that traditionally has been used as a warm-up for the district championship/Mallory eliminations.

The annual district meeting was held September 30 at the Monroe Street Station of the Chicago YC. The meeting was followed by a coaching clinic and then by a general meeting.

The district web-site Ñ www.missa.net Ñ continues under the fine management of Tom McGrath. Information is added and up-dated in a timely fashion. As Tom is now in college and finding it more and more difficult to do both his school work and work for school sailing, a new web-master is actively being sought.

ISSA TO MEET AT SAILING PROGRAM SYMPOSIUM [ back to index]
San Diego in January Ñ not bad. The USSAILING National Sailing Program Symposium is January 17-21, 2001 at the Shelter Pointe Hotel and Marina in San Diego. At the Symposium ISSA will host an open meeting of those interested in school sailing, a meeting of the ISSA Board of Directors, and present our free Coaching Seminar with supporting materials.

This seminar also qualifies for the high school module of the US SAILING Level III Coaching Certification Program. For further information on the Symposium see the USSAILING web-site: usailing.org. Ñ LAW

ISSA DISTRICTS BY STATE

CLASSIFIED ADS [back to index]
Readers of the ISSA Newsletter are invited to send us ads for our Classified Section. They must be of interest to school sailors, coaches, advisors, etc., and be subject to editing. Classifieds can be used to find or sell boats, give learning opportunities for school sailors, and offer sailing instructor employment. There is no cost to ISSA members for one-time publication of classified ads. All others: $25.00 pre-paid per issue.

INSTRUCTORS: Sailing/water skiing at top Maine children's camps offering Sunfish and master crafts. Contact Geoffrey Newman, 2914 Medinah St., Weston, FL 33332

RACING COACHES/INSTRUCTORS WANTED: YMCA Camp Letts on Chesapeake Bay is looking for enthusiastic sailors to team youth 8-16 in Lasers, Bytes, Optimists, Flying Scots, windsurfers, and 25-ft. sloops. Offering room/board, competitive salaries, and pre- and post-season employment opportunities. Contact Ian Fallon, PO Box 208, Edgewater, MD 21037. Tel. 410-798-0440 or e-mail irfallon@annapolis.net

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