Clinic for High School Sailors
Saturday, March 21, 2009
10 AM - 3 PM

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Room 4-270

The Massachusetts Bay League will be holding our annual clinic on Saturday, March 21, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. We are happy to have Stu McNay as our instructor and the Vanguard Sailing Center of RI as our sponsor. This one-day classroom clinic is open to all high school sailors and coaches in New England.

Our Instructor

Stu McNay has been an active sailor and racer for all his life. He is currently an assistant coach at Yale and was a member of the US Olympic Sailing Team, helming the 470 in China this past summer.

While an architecture student at Yale, Stu was team captain for two years (2003,2004). Stu was honored as a collegiate All-American in 2003 and 2005, and was a finalist for College Sailor of the Year in 2005. While at Yale, Stu received the New England Intercollegiate Sailing Association (NEISA) Sportsmanship Trophy and was nominated for national Collegiate Sailing Sportsman of the Year.

Stu has been a member of the US SAILING Team in 2002, 2004, 2005, 2006, 20007, and 2008. In 2007, he and his teammate, Graham Biehl, won the US Olympic Trials in the 470 class, securing a berth on the US Olympic Team for the Olympic Games held in China last summer.

In 2001, Stu won the Vanguard 15 North American Championships.

Our Sponsor

The Vanguard Sailing Center of RI offers a broad range of gear and equipment from Gill, Ronstan, Magic Marine, Harken, and Gul, and boats from Laser Performance (formerly TeamVanguard).
Scholastic discount pricing is available.

200 Highpoint Avenue
Portmouth, RI 02871
T: 401.683.0400, F : 401.683.3436
www.laserperformance.com
Monday – Friday 10am – 5pm
Saturday 10am – 4 pm

Directions

The clinic will be held in Room 4-270. In MIT-speak, that means Building 4, Room 270. Detailed directions can be obtained via this interactive map. Ample parking is available in any MIT lot even though the signs indicate that parking is restricted to MIT permits. The MIT campus is also easily reached via the T at the Kendall/MIT stop on the Red Line.

Registration

The cost of the clinic is $10 per person, payable at the clinic.
Lunch of pizza and bottled water will be provided.
Please RSVP to massbayleague [at] gmail [dot] com by Friday, March 28.
If you have any specific topics or questions that you would like to see discussed in the clinic, please include those in your RSVP.