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Hometown:  Oyster Bay, NY Greg grew up sailing every summer in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He coached young sailors at the South Shore Yacht Club for 7 years and competed on keelboats on Lake Michigan including the Chicago to Mackinac race on a variety of boats. When not...

12 January, 2018

I started to sail in Barcelona as a kid with the Optimists and then worked as a sailing instructor, I was teaching on dinghies, keelboats, yachts and multihulls. After studying chemistry, I changed my degree to Navigation and Maritime Science at Plymouth University while also...

12 January, 2018

Ethan has been sailing for 13 years on offshore and inshore sailboats both large and small. He grew up sailing in high school competitively, shortly to begin coaching sailing. Before Oakcliff he spent each season coaching high school sailing and expanding STEM sailing in his...

12 January, 2018

Tim Kent learned to sail on Lake St. Clair just north of Detroit, and did not start racing actively until his early 30s. He began keelboat racing, including the Port Huron and Chicago to Mackinac Races and really enjoyed the longer distance races. In the...

12 January, 2018

Ladi Oguntoyinbo grew up in Beaufort, South Carolina and attended Beaufort Academy, Cardigan Mountain, and Brooks School boarding schools. He played division 1 lacrosse and soccer at Hofstra University and continued his studies at the Seattle Maritime Academy. He headed out to sea as a...

05 January, 2018

As CEO and captain of America True, Dawn Riley was the first woman to manage an America’s Cup sailing team. She has raced on four America’s Cup and two Whitbread (now Volvo Ocean Race) teams. She is the former president of the Woman’s Sports Foundation,...

05 January, 2018