Team USA's Anna Tunnicliffe and crew Deborah Capozzi and SDYC's Molly Vandemoer secured the USA team a gold medal with superb sailing against Great Britain’s Lucy Macgregor in the Women’s Match Racing final on Fremantle’s Inner Harbour.

At the ISAF Sailing World Champs in Perth, AUS, five US Sailing Team AlphaGraphics athletes were selected for the 2012 US Olympic Team. As the top-scoring eligible US athletes in their Olympic class, Stuart McNay and Graham Biehl have successfully completed qualification.

US Sailing has nominated its 2011 sailors for the  Rolex Yachtsman & Yachtswoman of the Year Award. SDYC's Bill Hardesty and George Szabo are on the short list for Yachtsman of the Year. The awards ceremony will take place in February 2012 at St. Francis Yacht Club.

After 3 days and 8 races, Steve Howe aboard Warpath, alongside of tactician Morgan Larson and crewmembers Jeff Reynolds, Warwick Fleury, Zack Maxam (SDYC), Mark Towill, James Maloney and Tim Klein, have been crowned 2011 Melges 32 Gold Cup Champions.

Several SDYC members are in Perth, Australia for the 2011 ISAF Sailing World Championships in the Men's 470, Women's Match Racing, and Star fleets. The event takes place December 3 - 18, 2011.

British sailor Ian Williams is the new ISAF Match Racing World Champion after defeating Italian Francesco Bruni in a tense quarter-final of the Monsoon Cup, the final event on the World Match Racing Tour along with SDYC crew Bill Hardesty, Matt Cassidy, and others.