Wood s ability to raise money has been critical in the Patriot s Point move. That means the College, like the rest of the participating schools with sailing teams, has only itself to sell to prospective recruits. But it s an easy sell, according to Wood. We have literally hundreds of sailors coming to us every year. We really don t have to come to them.
Nothing succeeds like success.
They re recruiting us more than we re recruiting them. Surprisingly, none of the members on this year s national championship squad was from South Carolina. Wood said that s because this state has only recently gotten serious about its junior sailing programs. Meanwhile, Wood gets most of his sailors from the New England area, the Great Lakes states and the Gulf Coast region. And although he hopes the country s top juniors choose to come to Charleston, he doesn t fret when they don t.