High School Sailors!!
You are invited to join us for an opportunity to meet and hear from one of the greatest and most active contributors to the sport of sailing!
Dave Perry is coming to Chicago Yacht Club to share with us some of his top tactical tips and discuss the rules of racing. This is a rare opportunity open to any high school age sailors in the area interested in expanding his or her knowledge of the sport!
When: Sunday, February 14th, 9:30-11am
Where: Chicago Yacht Club, Belmont Station
Admission will be $10
We hope that you will join us! Please contact Maggie at Lumkes@chicagoyachtclub.org if you have any questions.
Dave Perry grew up sailing on Long Island Sound. Learning to sail in Sunfish, Blue Jays and Lightnings from his parents and in the junior program at the Pequot Yacht Club in Southport, Connecticut, he won the Clinton M. Bell Trophy for the best junior record on L.I.S. in 1971. While at Yale (1973-77) he was captain of the National Championship Team in 1975, and was voted All-American in 1975 and 1977. Other racing accomplishments include: 1st, 1978 Tasar North Americans; 5th, 1979 Laser Worlds; 1st, 1979 Soling Olympic Pre-Trials (crew); 10th overall, 1981 SORC (crew); 3rd, 1982 Soling Worlds; 1st, 1983 Star South American Championship (crew); 1st, 1983 and 1984 Congressional Cup; 2nd, 1984 Soling Olympic Trials; 6th, 1985 Transpac Race (crew); 1st, 1988 and 1992 Knickerbocker Match Race Cup; 1st, 1994, 1999 amd 2003 Ideal 18 North American Championship, and 1st, 1982 & 2006 U.S. Match Racing Championship (Prince of Wales).
Dave has been actively working for the sport since 1977. He has led hundreds of US SAILING instructional seminars in over 50 one-design classes; directed U.S. Olympic Yachting Committee Talent Development Clinics; coached the 1981 World Champion U.S. Youth Team; and given seminars in Japan, Australia, Sweden, Argentina, Brazil and Canada. He has been the Youth Representative on the US SAILING Board of Directors and the Chairman of the U.S. Youth Championship Committee, and has served on the following other US SAILING committees: Olympic, Training, Class Racing and O’Day Championship. He is currently the Chairman of the US SAILING Appeals Committee, a committee he has been on since 1985, and a US SAILING Senior Certified Judge. In 1992 he was voted into the Sailing World Hall of Fame; in 1994 he received an honorary Doctorate of Education from Piedmont College; in 1995 he became the first recipient of US SAILING’s Captain Joe Prosser Award for exceptional contribution to sailing education; and in March 2001 Dave received the W. Van Alan Clarke, Jr. Trophy, US SAILING’s national award for sportsmanship. He was the Director of Athletics at Greens Farms Academy, a K-12 coed independent day school in Westport, Connecticut for 21 years, and was the Rules Advisor and Afterguard Coach for Victory Challenge, Sweden’s 2007 America’s Cup campaign. -North U Instructor Bio, North Sails Group, LLC
