West Coast Sailing Blog

Sailing World has announced their annual Boat of the Year, and it's the RS100.“Other builders have tried to design the ultimate singlehanded dinghy with an asymmetric spinnaker” said Sailing World editor and Boat of the Year director Dave Reed. “But over two years of prototype development, the engineers at RS Sailing refined every little detail of this boat, and it shows. It’s an impressively technical 14-footer designed by and for avid performance sailors."These Boats are awesome one person rac …

Not fully sailing related, but still exciting: the local Business Journal named West Coast Sailing one of the Fastest Growing Private Companies in Oregon! We just had our 5 year anniversary, and we're going to do our best to keep the pedal down for the next 5 years!

As our company continues to grow we're pleased to announce the addition of a new employee - Chris Brown!We have sailed with Chris for years, and know we've found another fun, dedicated and very knowledgeable dinghy sailor to fill our staff. Chris actually lives on a boat, so he's around water all day every day.You can read a short bio on him in our About Our Staff page.Chris will be spending a lot of time during the summer running events and regatta support with the travel trailer.He'll also be …

We're pleased to announce that we're the Western North America Distributor for RS Sailboats!(that's a mouthful!)Basically, this means we'll be supplying RS Boats to dealers and programs throughout the west!We've sold the RS boats for many years, but we will now be bringing them in direct from the factory in the U.K.Several programs have already signed on to buy Teras and Fevas for youth sailingSome Canadian programs have started fleets of RS500s as well.We've got two customers who pre-ordered t …

The guys at Get Wet Sailing have put together a cool video from our trip out to Utah to sail the Moth.Moth - Utah Trip VideoGet Wet Sailing