• ECSA 2025 practice and elimination plans are beging determined. Final details will depend on interest from our sailors.

• Area B Semi-Finals/Eliminations will be held on June 26 and 27 at The Waterfront Center in Oyster Bay, Long Island. These will be sailed in Sonars by four sailor teams.

• Sear Cup Finals will be held August 7-10 at St. Francis Yacht Club, San Fancisco, California. The finals will be in J-22s sailied by four sailor teams.

Over the years ECSA has sent many teams that have been successful at the Area B semi-finals and continured on to the nationals. Two teams that went to the finals were national champtions:

1993 – Morgan Connor, Graeme Woodworth, Kyle Shattuck for Mystic River Mudhead Saiing Association

2011 – O.J. O’Connell, Ben Wilkinson, Kyle Seniff for Mystic River Mudhead Sailing Association

Click here and let us know you are interested! We will keep everyone that signs up informed. We hope to have practice sessions and if there is enough interest an ECSA sail-off to determine the most qualified sailors to represent ECSA at Area B semi-finals. See the details we have so far below.

ECSA will provide financial support to sailors going to the semi-finals and the finals.

Event Sailor Criteria

• Competitors shall have reached their 13th birthday but not their 19th birthday during the calendar year of competition.

• Competitors shall be individual or family members, all in good standing, of US Sailing at the time of application, registration, and of the event and not otherwise ineligible to compete under the laws, regulations, policies and rules of the USOPC or its affiliated organizations. 

• All competitors shall be members of a Local Sailing Organization (LSO) and US Sailing. An LSO is defined to include yacht club, sailing club, community sailing program or other sailing organization that is a member of US Sailing.

• All members of the crew shall reside in or regularly compete in the same US Sailing Area where the club is geographically located. 

2025 Selection Process

• 2025 Sears Teams will comprise four sailors and can represent either a yacht club or sailing organization that is a member of U S Sailing. 

• Teams wishing to compete to represent ECSA at the Sears Area B Qualifier regatta will attend mandatory training sessions as outlined by ECSA each year. We expect to schedule three sessions in 2025.

• These training sessions will be organized by the ECSA. A coach will be provided to help prepare sailors for both the sail off and eventual qualifiers.

• A sail off will only occur in the case that more teams wish to sail at the Area B qualifier than there are berths available to ECSA.

• All sailors must notify ECSA of their desire to compete to represent ECSA at Sears Area B Qualifiers by April 15th of the year. Any team(s) that qualify for and represent ECSA at the Area B qualifier regatta must be available and willing to proceed to the Nationals (Aug 7-10, St. Francis YC, San Francisco). 

• Shall a sail off be required, it will be conducted in a standard fleet race format, with the top finishing boat(s) securing bids for the Sears Area B Qualifier regatta..

• ECSA reserves the right to alter the selection process at any time as it sees