How did you get involved with sailing? Both of my parents are sailors. My dad did a campaign for the Olympics in the Soling for the 1984 Games in LA. He was very close but didn’t make it. But he knows what it’s like to train hard and do sailing competitions. My parents introduced me
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How old were you when you started sailing? Well I grew up living on a boat so I did my first yacht race at five months old (apparently), but didn’t really get into dinghy sailing until I was around 15 when my family arrived back in Australia. Tell us about the years of your childhood
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How old were you when you started sailing and does anyone else in your family sail? First time I touched the Optimist I was seven, my parents put me in a very old Optimist with a wooden mast. After that, when I was nine, they brought me to Split to my current club Mornar. My
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How did you get involved with sailing? The first time I started sailing was during a summer vacation in Bodrum. Nobody sails in my family. I found out that a frıend of mine had gone and just started by wondering about the ‘Optimist’ name. I didn’t know it was sailboat. Where did you learn to
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How old were you when you started sailing? I started sailing quite early around when I was six years old. I got into sailing since my mother was sailing when she was younger and was a trainer in our local club. Like every other kid in Sweden at that time I started with the Optimist.
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How did you get involved with sailing? My father, who has been sailing too, took me to a sailing course at my club when I was 7 and I really liked it. What made you decide to sail the Laser Radial and what has kept you sailing it since? I wanted to sail single-handed and
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How old were you when you started sailing? I was 10 years old when I started sailing. It wasn‘t very early but not too late. How did you first get involved with sailing? There were seven of us girls, me with my two sisters and four neighbors. Two of them were distant relatives with an
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How old were you when you started sailing and does anyone else in your family sail? I first learned to sail around while crewing for my father, Jim Buckingham, in local competitions but learned to sail alone in a Naples Sabot when I was eight years old. My dad has been a keen sailor since
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How old were you when you started sailing and does anyone else in your family sail? I was eight years old on a family holiday in Wales with my grandparents, two brothers and cousins. I was always one of the youngest so obsessed over beating them even from a young age. What was your first
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How old were you when you started sailing and how did you get involved? I started sailing at the age of 8 because my parents needed a daycare for the summer months. Why did you first decide to sail the Laser Radial and what has kept you sailing it since? I sailed a Byte when
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How old were you when you started sailing? I started sailing when I was 7 years old and my first boat was a Swedish Finessa Optimist. Did anyone else in your family sail? None of them had sailed a lot, but we had a keelboat that we used to sail down towards Denmark for the
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How did you get involved with sailing? My brother started, and I followed. Growing up on the island of Barbados meant that the ocean was in our backyard. Where was your first international regatta? I competed at the 2004 Optimist World Championships in Ecuador when I was only 10 years old. I didn’t do well
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How old were you when you started sailing? I started sailing at the age of 7 in my Optimist (21019), in Ste Maxime a small town in front of St Tropez. Why did you first decide to sail the Laser? After the Optimist where I was clearly too tall, I really wanted to sail 420
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How old were you when you started sailing? I was 5 when I started sailing the Optimist. It was a red old-style Optimist. My brother and sister were sailing so I wanted to start as well. My dad is a sailor and he took me to Horsens Sailing Club where it all started. Why did you
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Photos | Sailing Energy How old were you when you started sailing? I started sailing when I was seven years old, as soon as I could swim I was allowed to go sailing. How did you first get involved with sailing? My dad was the president of the local sailing club at that time. As a
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Photo | Sailing Energy How old were you when you started sailing? I grew up living on a boat so I was sailing from about five, but I didn’t really get into dinghy racing until around thirteen when we arrived back to New Zealand. Tell us about the years of your childhood that you spent living
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