MIAMI SUCCESS

MIAMI SUCCESS!



I was beginning to feel as though Miami was my second home; I have been there for so long. It’s been over a month since I have been home, evident by the Christmas presents still sitting in the car when I picked it up from my parents on Tuesday. However it has been a great month and the hard work and training all paid off when I won the US Mid Winters and followed it up with a 4th place (3rd Paralympic sailor) in the Miami Olympic Classes Regatta.
These were two very important regattas as they formed our trials for selection to the Paralympic Games in September.
It was a very strong fleet of 25 boats, consisting of the top 10 Paralympic sailors from the Worlds in September and also the top able bodied sailors and five times Open World Champion Stellan Berlin.
I won the Mid Winters with Stellan Berlin in second and fellow team mate Megan Pascoe in the 3rd.
Damien Seguin (Athens Paralympics Gold Medallist) won the OCR with Stellan once again in Second, Paul Tingley from Canada in 3rd and me in 4th. Megan pushed me all the way and finished 7th

It was also the Canadian trials and Paul put together an impressive performance to take selection over team mate Bruce Millar. I would like to say a big thank you to Bruce, for pushing me hard in the training we did together in Miami before Christmas and for lending me his second boat.