2016 Acorns

Kyle Collins, born and raised in Southern California, began racing Optis at the age of 8. With a desire to go faster, he started racing bigger boats soon after. Currently Kyle can be found racing CFJs as a senior in Read More

Sean Grealish is 17 and from Portland, Oregon. He’s raced many types of sailing vessels, ranging from lasers to J88s, in regattas spanning the country. Naturally interested in yacht design and naval architecture, Sean loves to examine the every aspect Read More

Arizona native Stuart Henry grew up racing Optis and Scow boats, during his summers on Lake Geneva in Wisconsin. He later moved to California’s Central Coast and is highly successful on his high school’s sailing team, primarily racing FJs and Read More

Richard Kertatos was born in West Palm Beach, Florida, but moved to Locust Valley, NY shortly after. After looking around for extra-curricular activities, he discovered the nearby Waterfront Center, which week-long learn to sail courses. He quickly fell in love Read More

Lec grew up in Chicago and moved to north-east few years back. He has a background in Engineering and is University of Chicago alum. Lec was introduced to wind surfing by his father at early age, yet continued mostly with Read More

Nathan Olmsted is a 15 year old sailor from Minnetonka, Minnesota. He has previously competed in Optis, and currently competes in lasers, high-school team racing, keelboat match racing and is the skipper of a local youth E Scow team. Nathan Read More

Sirine is a 15 year old sailor from Manchester-by-the-Sea, MA. She was originally born in Paris, France but moved to the United States when she was 3 years old. She has been residing in Manchester for the past 12 years Read More

Ethan Hanley grew up in the U.S. Virgin Islands and has been on the water his whole life. He started sailing in his local summer camp’s youth program and immediately fell in love with the sport. Ethan started a brief Read More

Taylor Hasson was born and raised in St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands, and started sailing at the very young age of 7 at his local yacht club’s sailing camp. Immediately getting infected with the sailing bug, Taylor started to pursue Read More

Adrienne Johnson is a 16 year old who spent half of her childhood in Toledo, OH and the other half on a C&C 40 in La Salle, MI. She began racing at age 12 in Optimists, but after a summer Read More

Rider Odom is a 15 year old sailor who has been sailing for the last 7 years of his life. He lives on St. Croix in the U.S. Virgin Islands, and has been a member of the St. Croix Yacht Read More

Jackson is a 17 year old senior in high school from Wayzata, Minnesota. He sailed for 8 years with Wayzata Community Sailing Center and the Wayzata High School team sailing optis, Lasers and 420s. Recently, he has gotten more into Read More

Sofia is 19 and hails from Alameda, California. From there, she spent most of her youth sailing all over the San Francisco Bay Area. She began her sailing career by riding along on her father’s J105 at a very young Read More

Evan Langford, from Montego, Jamaica, doesn’t know life without the ocean. When he’s at school in Connecticut he always keeps a small piece of rope in his backpack “to remember [his] love for the sea.” His first sailing experience started Read More

Adrien Lepleux is a 16 year old sailor from France. He moved from France to New York City in September of 2014, and started sailing at the age of 7 in La Trinité-Sur-Mer, in France. There, he sailed F16 catamarans, Read More

Noah Lyons is a 15 year old sailor from Clearwater, FL. He primarily windsurfs, sails Club 420s, and recently purchased a 49er to gain the skill sets necessary for a future Olympic campaign. He sails out of the Clearwater Community Read More

John Michel is a 15 year old from Clearwater Florida who was introduced to high performance sailing by the F16 catamaran. He is now sailing 420s and 49ers out of Clearwater community sailing center with his skipper Noah. He is Read More

Madeleine is 16 and from Boston, Massachusetts. She learned to sail in Kennebunkport, Maine at the Kennebunk Beach Improvement Association (KBIA), and recently she has been sailing on the Charles River with her high school team. Madeleine learned to sail Read More

Ariel is an American that grew up in Beijing, China. He started sailing at the age of 15, at a Naval boarding school in Florida. He quickly became an instructor and taught other cadets how to sail 420s and Lasers. Read More

Alex Temko grew up in Clearwater Florida, at the Clearwater Community Sailing Center. He started sailing at 8, and has competed both nationally and internationally in the opti class. He also trains with the US sailing development team, and recently Read More

Josh Temko is 17 and from Clearwater Florida. He has been sailing the Laser full rig and c420 for the past five years out of the Clearwater Community Sailing Center, and came to Oakcliff to learn more about the high Read More

Sam is 18 years old and hails from Sarasota, Fl. His sailing background includes racing high-performance catamarans, sportboat and keelboats. More recently he has been competing in ORC, PHRF, and One-Design Grand Prix Circuits like the C&C 30, Fareast 28r, Read More

Cort Vandlik (Tonka Bay, Minnesota) discovered his passion for sailing along the shores of Lake Minnetonka and competitive racing at age 11 on his Laser. Cort now competes nationally year round on the national Laser circuit and winter circuit events. Read More

Lindsey Winter grew up in Northport, NY, a small sailing town on Long Island. From a young age she sailed with her family on their C&C 30 and learned about racing keel boats and sailing offshore. She joined the Northport Read More