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Supporting our current sailors and the legacy of CNU Sailing through our Yacht Club Alumni Association and our CN Sailing Foundation, a 501(c)(3)

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On Saturday, November 14, 2026, come join us for one of our favorite days of the year: the annual Alumni Regatta & Oyster Roast.
Whether you sailed for CNU 30 years ago, graduated last year, are a current sailor, a parent, a coach, or simply love CNU Sailing: you’re invited. Come race, come eat, come reconnect, or just come be part of the community.
The Alumni Regatta will be at Youth Sailing Virginia and is free to participate. Our ticketed Oyster Roast will follow in the evening at Hampton Yacht Club. Click the link in our bio to learn more about the event and purchase your tickets to the Oyster Roast! by @cnusailingalumni

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Happy birthday, Anders! 🎂

Class of 2017, Anders (or Ders, as his teammates call him) has been a consistent champion of the sailing team. From FJs to E SCOWs, Ders will get you around the course fast and make sure you have the time of your life doing it.

Enjoy your day, and thanks for all you do to support CNU Sailing!

Sail Fast, Go Captains! ⛵ by @cnusailingalumni

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Come join us before the Oyster Roast at the Brennen Russell Memorial Alumni Regatta. Be part of the first alumni regatta since the team was reinstated!

⛵The regatta will be in our home waters at Youth Sailing Virginia. Skipper’s meeting at 12pm. Sign up at the link in bio so we know how many boats to rig! Bring your boat, crew up with old teammates, or come cheer everyone on from the dock. The regatta is open to everyone, no matter when you sailed. Don’t forget to join us at the Oyster Roast at Hampton Yacht Club after the race! 🦪 🔥⛵ by @cnusailingalumni

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Tickets are live for the 2026 Oyster Roast on November 14th! When you purchase your ticket online (link in bio!), you can also pre-order an event long sleeve t-shirt and/or hoodie to rep the oyster roast in style. Show off your Sailing team pride! Merch pre-orders close on 10/16. Get them in advance while you can! by @cnusailingalumni

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Happy birthday, Kate! 🎂

Simply put, CNU Sailing would not be where it is today without this incredible human. Try to find one person in the last ten years who has done more for this program than Kate. Go ahead. We’ll wait.

Class of 2008, Kate has been all-in for this team for a long time. When COVID hit and the team was left rudderless, she stepped up to keep the proverbial lights on through a coaching transition. And when the program needed help finding its footing again this year, there was never much question about who would help lead the charge.

A lot of what makes this program special exists because of people like Kate: the ones who show up, put in the work behind the scenes, and care enough to keep pushing forward when things get tough.

An absolute force for CNU Sailing and an even better human. We hope you have a fantastic birthday and, for once, get to sit back and let everyone else do the work. You’ve certainly earned it! by @cnusailingalumni

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The other half of the name on this weekend's regatta.
C.J. Woollum first came to CNC in the '70s as a young assistant basketball coach, an Alexandria kid by way of Kentucky Wesleyan. He spent nine seasons at Marshall, then came home in 1984 to lead CNC basketball. He never really left.
Twenty-six seasons. 502 wins, the first Division III men's coach in Virginia to reach 500. Seventeen NCAA tournaments and an Elite Eight. On the side, he coached golf to six NCAA tournaments of its own.
In 1987 he became Director of Athletics as well. Over the next 25 years he turned a small commuter-school department into a Division III powerhouse. He built the Freeman Center, started football from scratch, and won 15 straight USA South President's Cups. The Freeman Center court still carries his name.
Through all of it, C.J. was in sailing's corner.

The Webbs built this program. C.J. made sure it always had a friend at the top. This weekend we race the Webb/Woollum Regatta at home, Saturday and Sunday at Youth Sailing Virginia. We race for them.

Sail Fast, Go Captains! by @cnusailingalumni

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Meet the Webbs.
This weekend we race the Webb/Woollum Regatta at home. The Webb half is Dr. George Webb, Dean of Science, and his wife Dr. Jane Carter Webb. They built this program.
They came to CNC in 1973 from New Orleans, bringing Tulane's sailing energy with them. Near Ratcliffe Gym (What is now Bev Vaughn Hall) they found four abandoned Ghost 13s locked to a rusty frame, left behind by a student club that had died for lack of a facility or a coach. The Bicentennial summer of 1976 gave them their opening: they took charge of the Warwick Yacht Club junior program and struck the deal that started everything. The Warwick had a facility and almost no boats. CNC had four solid boats and no facility. The next step was obvious.
In 1979, with President Jim Windsor's blessing, they stood up the Christopher Newport Sailing Association, hired Billy Hunt as the program's first coach, and built the fundraising engine that paid for boats, coaches, travel and a top-twenty national ranking. Two of their sailors went on to campaign for the U.S. Olympic Sailing Team.
The Captain’s Log spent two decades trying to explain to campus that this quiet team was beating Ivy League schools. Looking back for a 1998 alumni feature, George called the physics-and-sailing crossover on his team a coed fraternity. He wasn’t wrong — fifteen to twenty of his students were in both.
Every boat we launch this weekend traces back to that 1976 handshake, and to the volunteers George once described as nurturing the program through its adolescence.
Home regatta Saturday and Sunday at Youth Sailing Virginia. We race for them. ⛵
Sail Fast, Go Captains!

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WE DID IT. CNU VARSITY SAILING IS BACK. ⚓

As a result of the incredible support from our alumni, donors, families, friends, and the broader sailing community, we are proud to announce CNU Varsity Coed and Women’s Sailing will return and the team will be back on the water this fall.

Our work as a Foundation has only just begun and we have a long road ahead; however, today, we celebrate the next chapter of CNU Sailing.

Thank you to everyone who shared a message, made a connection, supported the effort, donated, or simply believed.

The future of CNU Sailing is now. See you on the start line. ⛵ by @cnusailingalumni

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