Maritime College Athletics

Ron Weiss begins his seventh season as a coach with the offshore sailing team at Maritime in 2016-17.

Weiss led the team to four events during the 2015-16 season, as the team improved its standing each weekend through the Kennedy Cup in early November. In the season opener, the Privateers took seventh place at the Shields Trophy, and then followed that up with a fifth place finish at the McMillan Cup. The fourth place finish at the Kennedy Cup was the team’s highest finish of the fall.
 
During the 2014-15 year, the Privateers took part in eight events. One of the highlights was finishing third at the Shields Trophy, followed up by a fourth place finish at the Intrepid Trophy. Maritime posted two more top-five finishes at the McMillan and Kennedy Cups to close out the fall. During the spring, the team travelled cross-country to the Harbor Cup in Los Angeles, California.

During the 2013-14 school year, Weiss guided the team to several strong finishes including 4th place at the Shields Trophy event and McMillan Cup hosted by Navy in Annapolis, Md. The team also finished in 4th place at the Kennedy Cup in Annapolis, an event that required qualification. The season came to an end with a 7th place finish at the prestigious Port of Los Angeles Harbor Cup in early March.

In 2012-13, Weiss oversaw the Privateer Offshore Sailing team to a pair of 3rd place finishes, at the McMillan Cup in Maryland as well as the team's final event of the season at the Port of Los Angeles Cup. The squad also came up with 4th place results at the Intrepid Trophy event and the Kennedy Cup that season.

Weiss began his coaching stint at Maritime following the donation his 45-foot racing yacht "Crazy Horse" in early 2010.

Prior to his arrival in Throggs Neck, Weiss had always been an avid offshore sailor for more than three decades, competing in multiple Newport-Bermuda Races and hundreds of other regattas. In 1982, he was part of Dennis Connor's "Freedom" America's Cup team – a team that was based here in Fort Schuyler in the early 1980's.

Over the years, he was won close to 100 trophies ranging from local regattas to international ocean races. In his professional life he is a marketing consultant, and has recently joined the staff at Maritime as an adjunct professor for Marketing.

When he isn't racing or coaching, he and his wife Martha cruise their Little Harbor 46 sloop "Rocinante" in the Caribbean, Maine, and all along the eastern seaboard. Ron is a member of New York Yacht Club, The Storm Trysail Club, and the Cruising Club of America.