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I had the really amazing opportunity to travel to Japan twice this summer, once for the Laser Radial World Championships which were held in Sakaiminato (on the west coast) and again for the Olympic Test Event in Enoshima (the sailing venue just south of Tokyo). First up Sakaiminato. This was a really amazing venue for dinghy sailing, with a huge boat yard and an amazing […]

The senior European championship was held this year in Porto, Portugal. This was one of my favourite sailing venues I have been to so far. The city is really cool, located just up the river from the ocean on both sides of the river valley. The sailing venue is at the mouth of the river, and it is a short sail or tow out into […]

Another two-regatta trip, another blog update; this time in Europe! The first major European regatta of the season is almost always the Princesa Sofia Regatta, in Majorca Spain. This year was my second time racing there, and it was as awesome as ever. It is a super well attended event in all the Olympic classes, and has to be spread out between three sailing venues […]

A quick re-cap of the two events I did in Florida this winter: the Laser class US Nationals/LOCR in Lauderdale, and the Sailing World Cup in Miami. These were my first two events of 2019, and I was pretty eager to get back to racing after a great block of training and fitness in the fall. Lauderdale was very competitive this year, with 89 radials […]

I have just gotten home from the 2018 Laser North American champs in Long Beach, California, and they were a blast! It was also the country qualifier for next year’s Pan American Games, with 7 spots available for the standard and radial. It was especially well attended, with a total of 26 countries across 3 classes. Long Beach is one of my all time favourite […]

Hello! Sorry for totally abandoning this blog in the past month or so (if anyone is still reading). Things got a bit busy and I had a few frustrating sailing set-backs and I didn’t feel like blogging in the last month. But now I am back, and would like to do a re-cap of a really cool event I sailed recently: the Melges 24 World […]

This year was my first time racing in the Trofeo Princesa Sofia regatta (in Palma, Mallorca), and I absolutely loved it! It is one of the first big European events of the racing season for Olympic classes, so the turn out is large and very competitive. Almost 300 lasers raced between radials and full-rigs. It was a great opportunity to me to race in big […]

Hello! Sorry for my hiatus here, March was a super busy month and I just never managed to put aside the time for a blog update. So here is a catch-all March training update (in April….oops)! March was mainly a training block for me. The first week and a bit I spent at home, and then it was off to Mexico for a training camp […]

Last weekend we had our little local winter regatta, Frozen Assets. It certainly lived up to its name this year! It’s a small event, usually just our local fleet and maybe some from Vancouver, but pretty fun and a good opportunity to get some start-line work in. This year they decided to race the laser standards and radials together, which was a interesting decision. On […]

I’ve been home now for a few days, and its time to do a review of the Miami World Cup! It was overall a great regatta, even though I finished 10 places lower overall than last year (50th). We had pretty interesting and non-typical Miami conditions for quite a few days as well, which was cool. They had a new racing schedule for us, alternating […]