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Zim Sailing ILCA

Zim Sailing Gets ILCA Green Light

Zim Sailing is now a licensed builder of ILCA dinghies having been approved by the class and World Sailing, bringing ILCA production back to the States.

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Joy Taylor
Inside the Classes: DragonForce 65
This new race control sailboat class has emerged as the little class in the big city.
David Hardy's Turning Point
Inside the Classes: Beneteau 40.7
The turning point in David Hardy’s Beneteau First 40.7 sailing career came when Turning Point ’s previous...
Annapolis Farr 30
Inside the Classes: Farr 30
It only takes a pause before Rod Jabin pulls a favorite memory from more than a decade of racing Farr...
Annapolis 2018 NOOD Regatta sailing race
Inside the Classes: J/22
As the local J/22 class measurer, Jeffrey Todd, of Annapolis, Maryland, knows the boats far more intimately...
Annapolis 2018 NOOD Regatta sailing race
Inside the Classes: J/80
Give some respect for the one-design that came before
Thomas Shepherd's Beneteau 36.7
Inside the Classes: Beneteau 36.7
Everyone knows of the Kraken, the legendary long-armed giant squid storied to have tormented ancient...
Richard Berman
Inside the Classes: The J/105
Longtime J/105 sailor Richard Bergman on what 20 years in the same boat means to him and his Zuni Bea...
Garrett Johns on the helm
Inside the Classes: The Viper 640
What started as a good thing on the East Coast for the Viper 640s is now all good in the West.
Helly Hansen NOOD Regatta in St. Petersburg
Inside the Classes: Melges 24
What is Gary Schwarting’s obsession anyway? His perfectly trimmed beard? The cars in hisdriveway? His...
Helly Hansen NOOD Regatta in St. Petersburg
Inside the Classes: J/88
Look for the spinnaker with a gigantic meatball with a fork and noodles hanging off of it. That’s...
Helly Hansen NOOD Regatta in St. Petersburg
Inside the Classes: Hobie 33
Retro is always cool. Cars, motorcycles, bikes, you name it, there’s just something better about the...
170730_marblehead_nood_0673_todd
Inside the Classes: Town Class
Marblehead sailor Kelley Braun shares the story of her Town Class Suerte Verde, a new addition to the...
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