Thank you for your continued support of the Newport Harbor High School Sailing Team.  Your help has allowed our team to continually compete at the national level and constantly show that we are one of the top teams in the nation. 

The CDMHS Sailing Team thanks you for your continued and generous financial support. The funds directly contribute to the betterment of the team's program through improved equipment, coaching and opportunities for oru sailors to compete. Inspired by their high school experience, we have five of our seven seniors who will be sailing for their college teams in the Fall. Thank you for your support!

Thank you very much for the Newport Harbor Sailing Foundation's generous donation to Lighting Sailing Foundation! Our sailors are very excited about and appreciative of the support they've received from the NHSF and the broader Newport Harbor sailing community. Enclosed please find a team photograph for your enjoyment.

Thank you so much for your consideration in helping fund myself and the rest of my team to attend the 2018 U.S. Youth Match Racing Championships at Oakcliff Sailing Center. The experiences and lessons I learned were unlike any other event I have ever attended. Without your help, I would never have been able to participate in the event and get one step closer to attending the ISAF Youth Match Racing World Championships.

I recently (and very unexpectedly) competed in this year's Orange Bowl Regatta at Coral Reef Yacht Club in the C420 class. It was about 1 p.m. on Christmas Eve, while my dad and I were at the grocery store doing some last minute meal shopping for dinner that night, when my mom gave us a call. She asked if I wanted to go to the Orange Bowl Regatta this year. Not really believing her, my response was SURE! Later, we sat down and I asked why am I all of a sudden going to a regatta that I haven’t trained for, nor have crew for. She told me the team of Jean Wanlass and Alex Stauffer was prepping for this event when Jean, the skipper, came down with the flu and was not well enough to sail the event. Less than 13 hours later, I was on a plane on Christmas morning, flying out to Miami. What a Christmas present! I met Alex and her mom in the airport and we drove to the venue for our first day of practice together. Note this was our first time sailing the boat together and would be my first C420 regatta, ever... in an 80 boat fleet!

I recently competed at the 2017 Orange Bowl Youth International Regatta in Miami, Florida in the c420 with my skipper Gray Hemans (BYC). The regatta consisted of five days of sailing, including one day of clinic and four days of racing.

Leaving California Christmas morning, we saw a couple sailors on our flight and enjoyed talking about what was in store for us in Florida. The next day, Gray and I walked from our hotel
to the venue, and rigged what would be our c420 for the next three days. With winds around 15 knots, the conditions looked promising for the rest of the week, and we were able to test out our boat with a couple other teams from southern California and our coach from Severn Sailing Association in Annapolis, Maryland.