Piper Holthus, junior sailor and SDYC’s Junior Commodore, joins us on the Sailcast to talk about her recent successes and future plans in sailing!
The conversation begins with Piper talking about some of her favorite boats to sail, what it means to be the Junior Commodore and what some of her responsibilities in that role are. Recently, Piper was honored with the SDAYC Paul J. Hartley award, which takes into account integrity, citizenship, and how you support junior sailing. She touches on some of the excitement that came with that award.
Kettenburg PC's are a beautiful class of wooden boats that truly pay homage to the tradition of sailing.
The 2019 Orange Bowl Regatta hosted by Coral Reef Yacht Club was a great event and a fun learning experience. I competed in this event with my crew and fellow SDYC junior sailor, Sara Parker. We flew out to this event on Christmas day connecting through Dallas on our way to Miami, Florida. We got to the event and met up with our coach and worked on our charter boat and got to sorting out our settings. We headed out to practice and were greeted by 12-15 Kts of breeze. This was my first time sailing on Biscayne Bay and it is very different to sailing in Southern California, it is a very open venue with Key Biscayne on the top edge of the course and is windier than here. We sailed in a typical easterly breeze the whole event.
Drew Freides and Bill Ruh’s Pacific Yankee won the Melges IC37 Lauderdale Cup hosted by Lauderdale Yacht Club January 23-26. The southern-style event featured three full days of racing directly off Hollywood Beach in Fort Lauderdale, FL.
Pacific Yankee was helmed by Freides for the second event of the Winter Series after Ruh brought home a first at the Fall Cup. “Of course, the pressure was on after Bill won the first event,” said Freides. “I had to live up to his expectations.”
Tad Lacey took time to chat with us during the International Masters Regatta to talk about his life of sailing on and off the water.
Tad came down from San Francisco to sail in the regatta. He and host Alli Bell talked about how he got into sailing in Lake Tahoe sailing a sailfish, growing up by SF Bay and the variety of boats he enjoyed sailing in his younger year.