Sailing School Instructors

• Sailing School Committee Chairman
  Joe Londrigan (view bio)
  Joe Londrigan is currently serving his third year as Jr Sailing Committee Chairman. He also serves as a member IBYC board of directors. He is co-owner of Stargear.net and has spent the last two years working for Pegasus Racing. Last year Joe and his team from Springfield won the Chicago Macinkac race in the J-109 Division. Joe's sailing began at the age of 9 when he joined the IBYC Jr Sailing Program under the instruction of Lou Dixon. He currently sails the Star, Melges 24, J-109, and JY-15 with his wife Amanda. Below is a list of his sailing accomplishments:

  • 1993 Star World Champion
  • 1992 2nd Star World Championship
  • 1991 1st Star North Americans
  • 1992 1st Star North Americans
  • 1997 1st Star North Americans
  • 2000 4th US Olympic Trials
  • 5 Time District 4 Champion (1982, 1985, 1986, 1989, and 1991)
  • 1998 Tuning Partner US Olympic Team , Korea
  • 1993 US Olympic Committee Male Athlete of the Year For Sailing
  • 1993 Sailing World Runner Up Keelboat Sailor of the Year
• Head Instructor
  Andrew Wise (view bio)
  Andrew Wise, 18, is a recent graduate of Springfield High School. He will enter Tufts University as a freshman this fall. He is a Level 1 Certified Sailing Instructor, a life long sailor, and a product of the IBYC junior sailing program. Andrew races JY-15's locally and regionally. He also has some experience racing Lasers, Stars, and Sunfish. Proving his sailing versatility, Andrew has sailed two Chicago to Mackinac Island races, crewing for Joe Londrigan on the J-109 Realt na Mara.
• Women's Instructor
  Amanda Londrigan (view bio)
  Amanda Londrigan started in the IBYC Jr. Sailing program at age 6. She sailed on her high school and college sailing teams. Amanda taught sailing at IBYC for 6 years and served 2 of those years as the Head Instructor. In addition, she was the Head Instructor and the Opti racing coach at Severn Sailing School in Annapolis, MD. Currently, she races JY-15's with her husband Joe and the last 2 years she has raced the Chicago to Mackinac Island race on a J-109.
• Assistant Instructors
  Michael Evans
  Evyn Neumiester (view bio)
  Evyn Neumeister graduated from Sacred Heart-Griffin High School this year and will be attending Illinois Wesleyan in the fall. Evyn began sailing when she was nine years old, and she caught on quickly. Evyn has been teaching sailing since 2005 and she participates in local regattas and weekly Sunday racing. She hopes to have the opportunity to travel to other regattas around the country.
  
  David Dixon (view bio)
  David is 16 and will be a senior at Glenwood High School. He has been sailing since he started junior sailing at about 8 years old and has traveled to various out of town snipe regattas and sailed JY15's, Lasers, Sunfish and just started Ice Boats.
• Apprentices
  to be announced...