Looking Onward

Plans for this year?

Well, I've got a few key things I would love to get accomplished. These things are by all means not the only things that I want to do, infact I'm hoping and I'm sure that there will be a lot more sailing related things that I will find to add on to this list... But this is just a get started, simple, basic list to begin with.

Okay so key things I want to get accomplished in 2012-

1) Develop the Club sailing team into practicing 2x a week, this will be hard to do as the Club team is a new program here at CofC... But I'm sure with myself, the other two captains, and the support of Greg we can figure out a way to make this work. 2 days of 420's a week would really give me some good practice and development time for if I were to try out for the Varsity team again next fall.

2) Sail Charleston Race Week. I have never sailed any event anything like this before, and It would be incredible to sail in Charleston Race Week- I mean, it's like Disney World for sailors. And after watching all the video highlights from last year, I'm left counting down the days until we race this event. I'm looking forward to continuing to sail on Buena Vida and working up to CRW in April.

3) Get back into Lasers and sail whatever local events I can find. I would like to start sailing Full rigs more and more and re-develop myself into actually feeling fast in the Laser... Hopefully I can get out with some of the many good guys that are around here in Charleston and learn a few new things about sailing fast.

4) Blog more on tactic/strategy related topics. I plan to start this very soon. I want SF13 to be more of a resource, and an example of this is when I blogged on sailing in Montague Bay. Posts like this seem to bring in a lot of views and help kids out a lot with their sailing.

5) Sail more events than last year. Yep.

6) Continue to sail with the James Island Highschool team as often as I can in hopes of helping them develop their skills and gaining coaching experience that would go great with my minor in Coaching here at the College of Charleston.

7) Actually kite board a decent amount and not let all this new gear just sit around, haha. This one is self explanatory and I'm really looking forward to it- starting with this Saturday!

8) Sail Regatta Time in Abaco. This is an event I've always wanted to take part in, as it is held in the Bahamas. For some reason though, this event would be the most logistically difficult for me to attend, even though its very close to where I'll be living all summer. I'm not sure how I'd get on a boat for RTIA, but I'm sure I can figure it out eventually... Anyone out there looking for a good and reliable crew for RTIA, hit me up!

9) Coach a Summer session, preferably on the intermediate or race level to younger kids (10-13). Due to dates looks like I probably won't be able to coach in Nassau (which is extremely saddening), but I'm currently looking at opportunities in SC that correspond with me taking summer courses for extra credit- so that should be very interesting! I'll let ya know what I decide to do.

10) Sail Miami to Nassau... This is extremely far-fetched and by far the most unrealistic on this list, it would be incredibly cool and a dream come true though- haha!

SailFast, Live Slow!