Myself and three others from the UBC Thunderbirds Sailing Sport Club travelled to Arzon, France, in the Port du Crouesty to compete amongst 180 different schools in the largest student offshore regatta in the world! Our team went to the regatta hoping for decent results but at the end of the week we were battling for first place in the J70 fleet! It was five days of intense racing within our fleet with all of the boats extremely close together. By the very end our team made really good calls on the wind and we came 1st in our fleet! We were so excited and even more when we received our trophy and medals!
Hopefully the team continues to go to that event and can have amazing results in some of the other classes of boats as well! We are so proud of ourselves and it was an amazing way to end my university sailing career!
absolutely no sailing experience whatsoever. How would they learn? So there I was, eight years old at the Collingwood Sailing School. It turns out that after a few times taking their boat out, having the mast come down (they broke the automatic furler) as well as almost getting knocked down, they really didn’t like sailing at all. Not to mention my father’s inability to listen to an eight year old, and later on a fourteen year old, and still further an actual sailing instructor. But on the other hand, I fell in love! I spent the past six summers coaching sailing at that very same place I started, spent two full summers before that volunteering, and the previous five years going through my levels. I have been around the Collingwood Sailing School so long that students I taught their levels to are now coaching themselves. It has turned out to be an immense part of my life, and for that, I have only my parents to thank for not wanting to learn themselves! Luckily for me, they never sold the bought they bought, and it took them until I was 19 years for them to let me use!