Hindsight tells us that 2020 was a weird year. Especially an odd year to run a sailing event. However Coral Reef Yacht Club went ahead and ran the annual Orange Bowl International Youth Regatta. The decision for me to travel was not made lightly. We took so many precautions to stay safe from the pandemic. Face shields, masks, distancing, testing, sanitizing - all part of our routine. Once we arrived, we lived exactly as we do here these days - staying in our apartment and only going out to a socially distanced boat yard. The Orange Bowl limited the numbers of competitors, and no one was allowed to socialize.

Thank you very much for your generous support of my recent regatta in Miami FL. I thoroughly enjoyed my first experience sailing in Miami at the International Orange Bowl Regatta in the C420 Fleet. The conditions proved challenging. We experienced two days of moderate breeze and the final two days challenged the fleet with 17-20 knots of winds. I learned a lot about sailing in shifty conditions with regular gust of wind. Overall I placed 11th. though I was hoping for a better finish, I learned a lot as a sailor and definitely improved from this regatta. Thank you for helping to make this experience possible.

Having just returned from Miami, I wanted to say thank you so much for underwriting my participation at the 58th Annual Open Orange Bowl. My partner Tyler Wood and I had such a great time in our second i420 regatta. We were able to meet so many fellow i420 sailors from across the country and really enjoyed this opportunity. Being coached by the LISOT team brought new information and experiences we really valued. Tyler and I head back to Miami next week for our third i420 event at the North American Championships. All of our training and travel would not be possible without your support.  

I would like to thank you for giving me the opportunity to travel to Florida to sail in the 2020 58th Annual Open Orange Bowl Regatta at the Coconut Grove Sailing Club in Coconut Grove, Miami. This was a very good experience for me to get more racing under my belt. I was very fortunate that during this regatta we had all types of wind. This helped me get better in every wind condition or situation.

I would like to thank you for your support allowing me the opportunity to travel back East to Maryland to sail in the 2020 I420 MidAtlantic Championship in Gunpowder, Maryland. The event was hosted by the Chesapeake Experience and Sail1Design. This regatta was a great experience for me because it was out of my comfort zone. It was very shifty and overall a very hard venue to sail in. But, this experience made me a better sailor.

I would like to thank you for giving me the opportunity to travel back East to Connecticut to sail in the 2020 I420 Atlantic Coast Championship at Indian Harbor Yacht Club in Greenwich, CT. It was a very good learning experience for me, as it was my first i420 Regatta. I had the pleasure of sailing with Noble Reynoso, who is a two-time club 420 Triple Crown Winner. Noble helped me a lot with getting to know the boat in regatta situations, and he also helped me get more comfortable starting.