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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, dinghies, skiffs and also has...

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 in Optis, like many sailors,...

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 age, and she started racing...

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 keelboats and match racing, and...

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 Club for the last 5...

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 of racing optis and attending...

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 into his optimist career, but...

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 but competitive Optimist career at...

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 and enjoys the Northeastern climate....

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 got his first taste of...