We decided once again to attend the winter regattas in Florida and California spanning from mid January to end of March.
The first is the Miami Olympic Classes Regatta, the toughest of the three events , where quite a few top sailors come from around the world to compete in the second of the Olympic Classes World Cup events.
Chris Cowan , our other Laser coach and I drove the big laser trailer to Miami on January 10th , arriving for training by mid month.
We had sailors in the Laser standard rig- Ricardo Montemayor , Kyle Martin and Alex Heinzman and Isabella Bertold and Becky Power in the Radial Class. This was the second event in the Laser/Radial Olympic trials.
Hunter Lowden in the 49'er class, Mike Leigh and Luke Ramsay in the 470 and Bruce Millar in the 2.4.
The regatta had a variety of conditions and tested the sailors each of the five days thru the week with the final day a 'metal" race consisting of the top 10 in each fleet , Hunter's team made the race and finished the regatta with an excellent result.
Isabella fought hard to win a berth to the Olympics but fell a little shy and ended 2nd overall for the Radial berth. Alex sailed a good event finishing well up in the gold fleet .
All of our sailors gained valuable experience and were happy to compete against some of the best in the world.
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