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It takes a village to pull off the Oyster Roast! Use the link in our bio to volunteer for a shift at the event to help us roast oysters, set up/tear down the event tent, man the registration table, or sell the event merch.

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Coming to the 🦪Oyster Roast? We have group hotel rates available! Only a 12 minute walk/3 minute drive from HYC. Make a whole weekend out of the event! Book at the link in our bio by 10/28. The group rate will be available for booking after this date, but rooms will not be guaranteed.

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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! ⛵

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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!

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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!

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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!

#CNUSailing #WebbWoollum #ThrowbackThursday #NewEraNewCrew #CNUAthletics #GoCaptains

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One month from today.
Saturday, August 29 — the CNU Sailing Season Kick Off Event. The Captains are back, and we’re marking it properly.
⚓ Sailing Center Tour and Sailing at Youth Sailing Virginia, 9–11 AM. Take out a boat with your old crew or your kids!
🏛️ Campus tours and a welcome at the Klich Alumni House, 1:00 / 1:10 / 2:00 / 2:10
🦐 Low country boil, 5–9 PM at Coach Kate’s house
Come for one, come for all three. Alumni, families, friends, donors, supporters, current sailors — all of you. Families welcome at every stop.
Swipe for the full day. RSVP + merch pre-order at the link in bio.
Tag the teammate you’re bringing 👇
Sail Fast, Go Captains!

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Every program has a few people who never stop showing up for it. Tara (Mahoney) Plant is one of ours.
Class of 2013 — and more than a decade later, from all the way out in San Diego, she’s still in the gear, still telling anyone within earshot about CNU Sailing, still cheering just as loud. When this program needed believers, she was already one. 🌊
Captain for life isn’t a slogan around here. It’s just her. Hope today’s a good one, Tara.
Sail Fast, Go Captains! ⛵

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BVI’s above the waves. Family, fly fishing, photography, Fair winds, and a few to many sprites. (pt.1)

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