Thank you so much for supporting me to compete in the ILCA Radial Youth World Championship in Circolo Vela Arco, Italy. It was an amazing experience. We raced for six days. There were 40 countries represented with 374 sailors. I was one of six girls from the USA.

In the last week of June, fellow SDYC member Jack Plavan, and MBYC members Diego Escobar and Marianna Shand, and I took a trip across the country to Rochester, New York, to compete for the U.S. Youth Match Racing Championship, known as the Rose Cup. None of us had ever been to Rochester and we were excited to compete in our first U.S. Sailing Championship since the pandemic.

On the last day of the 2021 school year four teams from SDYC took off from San Diego to participate in the 29er Nationals in Bristol, Rhode Island. Some of stayed at the Roger Willams University dorms that were just down the street from where we were sailing out of. After one day of practice in Bristol we sailed in the Skiff fest regatta. Team SDYC did well with Ian and Noah Nienhyse winning, Anton Schmid and Peter Joslin in second, and Alice Schmid and Sammie Gardner taking 5th. After that three-day event, the team took Monday off to visit Newport and do some sight seeing.

Congratulations to SDYC's Piper Holthus and BCYC Sophia Pearce, winners of the 2021 C420 National Championship sailed in Brant Beach, NJ. The championship sailed with 132 teams came down to the last race, which Holthus and Pearce came in first.

At the beginning of this summer, we flew out to Bristol, Rhode Island for just under two weeks to compete in the 29er US Nationals. We flew out a week before the event to take part in the  kiff
Generation Regatta held by the 2niner squad out of Roger Williams University. RWU is a great venue where we rigged in a forest and raced just off the beach.

Ian and Noah Nyenhuis (29er class) are the first SDYC juniors to qualify for the US Youth Worlds team since Judge Ryan qualified back in 2008. The 2021 Youth Worlds will be in Oman in December. 

This past weekend, six 29ers took to the waters to compete in the San Diego Olympic Classes Regatta. The first day saw light winds from 4-8 knots from the west, that were accompanied by large swells and chop. The second day was windier, with the breeze from the north west direction at 8-10 knots with large swells and chop. The racing was close at the top of the fleet, with teams Sammie Gardner and Alice Schmid and Anton Schmid and Peter Joslin battled it out for the regatta win until the last race of the event, where Sammie and Alice eventually pulled ahead to win.

Register now for the July 23rd Dutch Shoe Marathon, the sabot race for Juniors and Seniors racing from La Playa, through San Diego Bay to Coronado. The annual summer tradition was canceled in 2020, so don't miss its 2021 return.