Sail22

05/30/2026

Congrats to team Hedgehog for winning and awesome to see Dime in the top 5. We love seeing our friends and clients do so well. We have been watching from home.

J/70 International Class Association
USA J/70 Class Association

Congratulations 2026 J/70 Corinthian World Champions: Alec Cutler, Charles Pucciariello, Keith Davids and Brad Rodi on Hedgehog (BER) 👏👏👏

05/16/2026

Great to see this happening in Chicago. Awesome work Doug, Telmo, Chuck, Naomi and John. The limited access was a problem and clubs working together and opening up is a huge step that wasn’t there before. The Seattle fleet, JPod lead by Ron Rosenberg has been amazing. Trying to create a winter version of this. We need the bridge from youth and college to this.

https://stephenswaring.com/news/growing-season-in-chicago/?fbclid=IwRlRTSAR1QY5leHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZAo2NjI4NTY4Mzc5AAEeoUw7e8l2yZOTTixQqmisIV_VJClykg1UjIe0E_DPpbI3dSgAj0odsr6bxMU_aem_1AadZfVULfGa017-yUhcpA

J/70 International Class Association
USA J/70 Class Association
Chicago Yacht Club Youth Sailing

How one fleet captain turned two J/70s into seven, and 25 crew members who couldn’t wait to come back. A story about a how it takes a village to build a sailing community from scratch.

05/15/2026

New rope package on an older MC Scow. Freshens it up and the continuous lines make it easier use.

05/12/2026

Sail22 update on RoboBuoy Inc dba MarkSetBot vs. Sail22 LLC and moving forward to continue to support the Sailing Industry.

04/30/2026

It’s seems like lately we are getting asked for discounts, reduced rates, “is that the best you can do?”. We have set industry pricing. We are the only sailing industry business that is regularly on site at adult sailing events. We also ship often but our travel schedule can affect that. But we do our best so please be aware of our schedule and realize we are a small business. On top of that we are the only ones running Automated Marks, RaceSense and other Race Committee help and I am also a US Sailing certified Race Officer. We will talk more about Race Committee later. But when I am not on the road and one of the biggest reasons for missing the Sailing World Regatta Series Annapolis this weekend is right here. Two of my three kids get IVIG treatment every 4 weeks. Becky takes the brunt of the work but we try to split the two day treatment schedule. This week she is away at a Photography Conference for her company Always Images. So I get two days. She has more than her share of two day sessions. On top of all this we also have a lawsuit against us for choosing the product we preferred in RoboMark. We are just an end user. No investment. But we promote what we prefer just like when we use Vakaros RaceSense, check out other sailing technologies and provide our own Pro Coach Boats that we bring to events as well. We will always check out new technology and ways to help our sport both on the water and to get better coverage so we can keep our friends, family and grow new fans. If we don’t do it then who will?

So through all of this we are there for our clients making sure we can support the Sailing Industry and clients to make it easy to get on the water. We also work directly with Sailing Industry partners to help design and test new products and we own boats that we charter out and every once in a while we get out and sail ourselves. But that’s usually after we know we aren’t needed to help run things.

Now we are figuring out how to finance all of this as these extras all cost us more than we can handle and we hope not to change how we are supporting what we love. We are up for ideas and doing our best to be around for a long time

04/27/2026

Home and safe from more rain. Good to be back to catch up and get orders out for teams getting ready for a busy summer.

04/26/2026

Final morning of the ClubSwan 28 Event 2 Pensacola. Storms rolled through so not looking good. But a great weekend in Pensacola.

04/25/2026

Long day to get 3 races in with light to the breezy conditions.