Aug 13, 2012 | Featured, grantReports
Dear BYC Maritime Sciences and Seamanship Foundation, Thank you for your considerate support of my twin brother and me in the 2012 Junior Olympic Festival Regatta. The two of us were excited to improve our score of a 17th in the CFJ class in San Diego in 2011. This...
Aug 1, 2012 | Featured, grantReports
Dear BYC Maritime Sciences and Seamanship Foundation, Thank you for your generous donation to help support me in the 2012 Junior Olympic Festival Regatta, hosted at California Yacht Club from July 12–15. I sailed in the Club 420 class, with my crew coming to sail with...
Jul 31, 2012 | Featured, grantReports
July 3 through July 8, 2012 On Tuesday morning at 4:30 amwe packed our bags and got ready for a six hour flight across the country. We left Los Angeles International Airport at 7:55 am and landed in Chicago for our connecting flight. We had to run across the entire...
Jul 31, 2012 | Featured, grantReports
Dear BYC MSSF, My summer started in a very exciting way. Two days after school got out, Carolyn Smith and I hopped on a plane that took us to Minnetonka, Minnesota to compete in the US Junior Women’s Doublehanded Championships – the Ida Lewis Trophy. Going...
Jul 8, 2012 | Featured, grantReports
This Ida Lewis Regatta started out on a great note. The clinic and the coaches were amazing and extremely helpful. The 76 sailors were broken up into groups of about 10 sailors, making the coaching much more personalized. These coaches were from high-quality sailing...
Jun 12, 2012 | Featured, grantReports
I didn’t want to get up on Saturday morning at 6:30 ambut that is the reality when you live 30 miles from the water. On Saturday June 9, 2012 we checked, in, ate breakfast and played with my friends like all kids usually do. Mom and Dad rigged my boat for me...
