As I sit down this rainy Thursday morning to write a recap from last Wednesday night's Shields race, I am swept by nostalgia. Enhanced by...

What a great night. In the wake of last week's tribulations, this week we completely turned it around and took home the gold. With only...

Last night was rough. Rough conditions, rough emotionally. I feel like people don't talk about the emotions side of sailing, of...

Tragically, I did not find a boat for last night's racing. Though I suppose that it is less a tragedy, and more a matter of my...

It felt like it had been weeks since we had raced. Last week was cancelled due to pesky hurricane interference, but as we gathered on the...

Wellllllll, this blog is coming out almost a week late. My memory is probably faded, inaccuracies in events and descriptions are all...

Surprise Starts, or A Night with the Owners, or To Finish with a Song, or Follow the Shifts to Rose Island or Eddy Back to Base. All...

Highlights from last night included sailing around pre-sequence with the Game of Thrones theme song playing on repeat, and blasting it as...

What a great night, with team 245 Hawk bringing home the bronze! A few things culminated towards this placement. A few days before I...

It was a dark and foggy night... The night didn't start out that way, though. I knew fog was threatening because I had seen an insidious...

To bib or not to bib? Was my question as we headed towards the course last night. The seabreeze felt like it was dying, dropping from...

And June 25th turned out to be a BEAUTIFUL night on the water, despite being preceded by a nearly 100 degree day with no wind, and an...

2nd night on shield 245. Finally a race with decent wind and it wasn't freezing. June has been staunchly holding on to the fog and rain...

Night two. A new boat, with no on I had sailed with before. On the sail down to Gould Island we practiced some gybes, and I was shown a...

The first time on a Shield. The weather had been bitingly cold the Tuesday night before my first Wednesday night shields racing with...