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, and J120 classes. In the...
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 performance boats, specifically 49ers. In...
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 he has just started competing...
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. He is currently starting his...
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 at age 7 on Optis,...
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 highly motivated to do better...
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 Sailing Center, and the Clearwater...
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...