2023 has been an epic year for our team. We have sailed in 6 major championships, and in 4 of them secured a top 10 finish. Whoa! Best year ever for USA 50. Four days ago, at the Pan American Games, we secured a berth for the USA in the Nacra 17 at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games!! This is a massive step for our team, and we are beyond excited. Huge goal achieved! We’ve slowly chipped away at our weakest points. Putting in the hours on the water has been our number one tool for improvement. Tom...

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Happy New Year! We are thrilled to start 2023 off with a bang: spending 6 weeks training hard with the international Nacra fleet in Lanzarote, Canary Islands (Spain) in big wind and waves! The training here has been incredible, and we are proud to say that we have made an immense amount of progress on downwind speed (as was our goal after 2022 Worlds) as well as lots of progress on upwind performance. Last year was a milestone year for our team. We brought Tom Zajac (2016 Bronze medalist)...

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Training in Fort Lauderdale this past month brought a whirlwind of chaos. However, preparation and thinking quick on our feet gave us the opportunity to maximize each day to the fullest.We started off March testing our boathandling skills in short course racing. The pressure was on to execute maneuvers we had been working to perfect since last October. With no obvious pattern to the waves, each tack, gybe, set and dowse was slightly different from last. Heart rates were high as we found...

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