Thank you to the Newport Harbor Sailing Foundation for helping support my sailing at the 2025 C420 US National Championship. This year, the regatta was on July 22-24. It was hosted by Hyannis Yacht Club on Cape Cod. My skipper, Carly Kieding, and I flew in on July 20 for one day of practice before the regatta.

Thank you to the NHSF Committee for generously supporting my participation in the 2025 ILCA Midwinters East Regatta, held February 15–19 in St. Petersburg, Florida. The event was hosted by the St. Petersburg Yacht Club and featured over 200 of the top ILCA sailors from around the world. As a major qualifier for the ILCA World Championships, ILCA Grand Prix, and World Sailing ranking points, this regatta drew an elite international fleet and delivered some of the most competitive racing I’ve experienced.

The VX One North Americans, held in Miami from November 14–16, was a valuable learning experience. It was a fifty boat event that made my team and I reconsider how to sail in light air. The weekend prior, we competed in the warm-up event and finished fourth—a strong result that gave us confidence heading into the main regatta.

In February my partner Noah Stapleton and I competed in the 2025 C420 Midwinters in Jensen Beach, Florida. My family and I flew out to Jensen Beach with probably half of the Southern California contingent! It was a pretty fun start to the regatta. 

I was looking forward to this regatta because the forecast was for sun and warm temperatures, a huge step up from last year’s cold front that resulted in wet and extremely windy conditions for two out of three days of competition! This year the breeze was good but steady, and we got in three solid days of racing.

December 2024, I attended the 50th annual Orange Bowl regatta for the 4th time. This year was the first time I didn’t come early and attend the clinic before the regatta. I believe I could’ve done much better if the conditions weren’t as windy and unpredictable, but I still had fun seeing my friends and coaches. Although I didn’t achieve my goal of doing better than last year in gold fleet, I think I definitely learned and took away a lot from this event, one thing being that you CANNOT give up after the first day of racing, and you have to push the entire regatta no matter what is happening to you, inside and outside of racing. 

Sailing over the holidays in Key Biscayne for the annual Orange Bowl Regatta is one of the best experiences for big fleet racing I get to have all year. You never know what the weather and wind will be from day to day and that is what makes it so exciting.