Notes:
SAILING CLUB STARTED BEFORE THE FIRST DOORS OPEN AT UCI:
Before the new university’s first day of instruction in October of 1965, students elected three special committees, one to draft a constitution, two - to develop extra-curricular organizations and third an honor code.* It was out of the development of the extra-curricular activities that the sailing club was born.
THE UCI SAILING TEAM REPRESENTED UCI IN IT’S FIRST YEAR
During UCI’s first academic year, there were teams represented in seven sports - four water related, taking advantage of UCI’s proximately to the coast.
They were: Basketball, golf, tennis, swimming, waterpolo, sailing and crew.
UCI Sailing classes and Club activities started in rental boats in Balboa. When the land was acquired for the Intercollegiate Sailing and Rowing Base, next to the Balboa Bay Club, Lido 14 dinghies soon where put in service. The first lidos were donated. A couple of years later all new Lidos were purchased.
WHAT THE UCI SAILING TEAM STARTED WITH
Team first used Lehman 10’s then moved up to the present use of Flying Juniors (FJ).
TODAY…The UCI Sailing Team has had FOUR National Championships and many NATIONALLY RANKED TEAMS!
* Notes taken from the book, Instant University, The History of California, Irvine 1957-93, by Samuel Clyde McCulloch, 1996, page 141.