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Justin is an “anything that floats” kind of boatie. He was only 6 months old when he first started boating in East Hampton aboard a classic 1912 Elco motor yacht, and sailing on Dark Star a 42′ C&C sailboat. He’s grown up in Bayville where...

Zach began sailing on Sunfish at Boy Scout Camp when he was . Next in his sailing career he moved up to sailing Jboats on Lakes. The next step in his career brought him into the One-design Laser and Sonar Classes. After watching the Movie...

Evan joins Oakcliff from Jamaica where he sails at Montego Bay Yacht club. While he is from the exotic island-nation, he grew up sailing and racing optimist like many other sailors around the world. Evan then went on to sailing Lasers and Hobies. Not as...

Josh Prisamt AKA Yoshi is a 16 year old junior in high school who has been sailing keel boats on the Long Island Sound since he was a small child. He began his racing training at 11, when he spent his summers at Mystic Seaport...

Madeleine grew up sailing in Kennebunk Maine. At age 7 she started sailing Optis at her local yacht club. After 4 years she started racing in lasers and 420s. Madeleine loves being on the water and tries to sail as much as possible. She currently...

Amina grew up in Jamestown, Rhode Island, spending her summers sailing mostly at Sail Newport. She started racing dinghies at age 9, and has been sailing competitively ever since. She has sailed mostly dinghies, with some experience on J24s and PHRF racing. She is currently...

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 Yacht Club Junior Sailing Program...

Born and raised on Long Island, Lillian Kennedy had an early love of the water and began sailing optis in Port Washington when she was eight. Even sailing through thunderstorms alone at the age of nine couldn’t ward her off, and once she got her...

Sam is a small-boat, catamaran, and keelboat sailor from Sarasota, Florida. Sam has been sailing competitively since 2009 and has since entered the world of high-performance dinghies, sport boats, match racing, and large keelboats. Sam is using Oakcliff as a platform to improve his sailing...

At age 8, Conner Harding participated in his very first sailing summer camp and hated it. “Sailing is too slow and boring,” Conner said to his parents. For the rest of the camp, Conner watched sailing from the coach boats. Soon enough, Conner gave sailing...