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High School Sailing

In 2005, NMHF established the National Capital High School Sailing program. This program is intended to instruct high school teams in the sailing techniques supporting varsity and junior varsity interscholastic competition and to support these teams in weekend competition against other high schools in the Middle Atlantic region.

Spring 2010 JV and Varsity Sailing Team

High School Sailing

Sailing is one of the fastest growing sports in the United States. National competition among high schools has increased dramatically, and, the Mid-Atlantic region alone has experienced a 120% growth in the past three years. In an effort to support this trend, DC Sail provides facilities, equipment, and coaching staff to interested high school students who live in the Washington, DC region. This program offers your High School a ready-made framework for starting or maintaining a competitive sailing team or sailing club at an affordable cost.

National Capital HS Sailing is an alterative educational and physical fitness program for high school students who are interested in sailing and racing. The program provides a positive environment in which all students will learn the importance of teamwork, respect, responsibility, leadership, commitment and sportsmanship. Sailing is a rapidly growing collegiate sport, so that participation at a high school level is a valuable addition to a student’s extracurricular record. There are currently one hundred and fifty-four colleges and universities in the U.S. that offer sailing programs.

National Capital High School Sailing Program

The National Capital High School Sailing Program acts as a facilitator for high school sailing teams. Last season, six schools participated in our program including Bishop O'Connell, Sidwell Friends, National Cathedral School, The Potomac School, Walt Whitman and Washington International School. The program is all-inclusive; those who have never set foot on a sailboat are just as welcome to join the program as racers who have competed in high school regattas. Our goal is to prepare high school sailing teams of all sailing abilities for competition in interscholastic high school sailing regattas.

DC Sail offers the only small boat sailing facility in the District of Columbia. High school sailing activities take place at the Gangplank Marina, located on the Washington Channel. DC Sail maintains a fleet of ten Club/Collegiate FJ’s, which are double-handed racing sailboats. Two motorized craft operate as safety boats and on-the-water teaching platforms.

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Coaching

DC Sail maintains a staff of three paid instructors, one head coach, and two assistants. Each instructor employed by the club is trained in techniques for teaching basic sailing including safety boat operation, instructional sailing drills and lecture topics. Boat handling, boat speed and winning tactics are all necessary to be successful in sailboat racing. We teach students how to learn as a team and to improve in these areas. Our instructors are also certified by the American Red Cross in First Aid and CPR. Our coaches are not only out on the water during daily practice – they also coach the teams at every ISSA regatta throughout the semester. DC Sail administers background checks on all of their employees and volunteers.

This year, DC Sail welcomes new Head Coach, Lyzz Schwegler. Lyzz comes to us with years of experience, having been the Captain of the UCLA Sailing Team for three years, a Women's Varsity A skipper, coached the UCLA JV team, and was Head Coach of the UCLA Marina Aquatic Center/Venice YMCA youth program in its first year.

We are very excited to have Lyzz as a part of our team.


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DC Sail is the community sailing program of National Maritime Heritage Foundation, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization.

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