4:30 pm Friday February 3

Marbury Center

Augusta, Georgia

10:00 am Saturday February 4
JUNIORS ONLY

10 Winning Race Moves!

Dave Perry grew up in Connecticut (one hour from New York City) 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 University (1973-77) he was captain of the National Championship Sailing 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; 3rd 1982 Soling Worlds; 1st, 1982 Prince of Wales Match Racing Championship; 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; and 1st, 1994, 1999 and 2003 Ideal 18 North American Championship.

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 Sailing Team; and has 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 a member of the US SAILING Appeals Committee 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.  Dave has authored three books on sailboat racing: Winning in One-Designs,Understanding the Racing Rules of Sailing and Dave Perry’s 100 Best Racing Rules Quizzes. He was the Director of Athletics at Greens Farms Academy, a K-12 coed independent day school in Westport, Connecticut for 21 years, and currently is the Rules Advisor and Afterguard Coach for Victory Challenge.

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