Lido 14 Senior National Championship

My dad and I sailed in the Lido 14 Senior National Championships on Mission Bay in San Diego from August 9-12. We chartered a boat and flew to San Diego. Our traveler was loose a few inches so when we tried to pinch the boat slowed down a lot. This hurt our racing in the qualifiers for silver or gold fleet. We realized the malfunction in the 2nd of 3 races the day of the qualifiers. We ended up finishing 2nd overall in the silver fleet for the qualifiers. We raced in silver fleet for the next few days and had some very close races. We made many mistakes but also did many things very well. In many races we were close to Dave Carrol and Grant Williams, both fantastic sailors in our opinion. In the very last race we received our only 1st place finish. Winning the last race placed us in first of the silver fleet for the whole regatta. There were about 23 boats in each fleet and 46 in the whole regatta. We were very pleased with our finish. At the annual class meeting, many new board members were elected. In the end it was a great regatta with parties, racing, and great weather. We will hopefully be sailing in the nationals again next year at Hunington Lake in California!

Lido 14 Women's National Championship

On August 8th, I sailed in the Lido 14 women's national championship. It took place on mission bay in San Diego. It was a fantastic event with 12 participating boats. I sailed with my dad's friend's daughter, Maggie Nolan. We sailed pretty well but had a few malfunctions with the Lido 6000 series centerboard and after the event realized that the traveler was a few inches loose, which didn't allow us to point as well as I am usually able to. I thought it may have just been the boat since we chartered it and I wasn't used to it, but that was the problem. We ended up finishing 5th. In the end I was pretty proud of our overall performance.