Ense-nada? Si Si!

As seen in July 2021 Sailing Magazine 

Viva Ensenada

For nearly three-quarters of a century, the Newport to Ensenada Yacht Race has drawn racers with fun and challenging sailing. 

After being sidelined during the long pandemic pause, the annual Newport to Ensenada Yacht Race in late April marked our long-awaited return to sailboat racing. We scrambled to make our boat race ready: restocking gear and re-certifying everything that had lapsed during the hiatus. Yippee Kai Yay is a lean, mean, racing machine with no fancy galley, so our provisioning boils down to sandwiches, Cup-a-Soup, coffee, cocoa and the like. Hot drinks are sacrosanct on an overnight distance race! But one hour after the race start I realized I had left the kettle at home, and there would be no boiling anything that night. It was an epic fail. I glumly returned on deck and announced my screw-up to the rest of the crew. No worries, the crew’s ear-to-ear smiles could not be erased. We were out on the water again, reaching in a gentle breeze straight down the rhumbline beneath cloud-speckled skies, in our favorite regatta of the year. Hot water be damned—we were racing to Mexico. Read the whole story HERE

Red Cross Awarded OC Nonprofit of the Year

Published as part of my volunteer work as Public Information Officer at the Red Cross

American Red Cross of Orange County Receives Nonprofit of the Year Award

When California State Assemblymember Dr. Steven Choi presented the American Red Cross of Orange County the 2021 Nonprofit of the Year Award, he revealed how the vital work of the Red Cross had recently hit close to home.Dr. Choi, who represents the 68th Assembly District, noted, “I had to evacuate my house last year when a wildfire in Irvine threatened the Orchard Hills area where I live. I had to evacuate for three days and I would have been under your care; It would have been me in one of the shelters,” he acknowledged, if not for a daughter living nearby. “Every time we run into disaster, the first organization that pops up is the Red Cross.”

Read the entire article on the Red Cross website HERE

Cruising to the Coronados

AS SEEN IN SAILING MAGAZINE Just 16 miles from San Diego, Mexico’s Coronado Islands are a perfect spot for a staycation cruise Exotic destinations will always have their allure, but 2020 has been the year of the staycation. For landlubbers, it meant camping in the backyard, but for sailors it became the perfect excuse to become re-acquainted with our local waters. That’s just what my friend Capt. Diane Berol had in mind when she invited me for a staycation in San Diego aboard her 40-foot Pacific Seacraft Voyagemaker Celtic Song. The boat is plenty big for two people to social distance, yet easy for two to manage. Read the entire story here