{"id":1005,"date":"2010-12-12T11:32:06","date_gmt":"2010-12-12T15:32:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/j30.us\/blog\/?p=1005"},"modified":"2010-12-21T09:10:18","modified_gmt":"2010-12-21T13:10:18","slug":"a-kid-wins-it-all-as-seen-on-sailing-anarchy-10102010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/j30.us\/blog\/a-kid-wins-it-all-as-seen-on-sailing-anarchy-10102010\/","title":{"rendered":"A Kid Wins it All"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Story by Nicholas Hayes as posted on Sailing Anarchy<\/a> 10 November 2010.<\/p>\n

Milwaukee area sailors gathered last Saturday to collect awards for the summer of 2010, and to crown their season champion.\u00a0 And a kid won it all.<\/strong><\/p>\n

But not for sailing against kids.<\/p>\n

Indeed, Whitney Kent, skipper of the J-30 Rafiki and a senior in high school<\/em>, collected the SSYC<\/a> Corinthian Yacht of the Year award. Whitney and her team, sister Alison, mom Cheri, step-dad Eric and friends, out-sailed the adults on Milwaukee Bay. Whitney had the helm in every race. But this award isn\u2019t just for scoring well in races. Bay-area skippers vote for the recipient of this award based on both on- and off-the-water leadership. Whitney was the clear winner.<\/p>\n

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Nobody expected the boat to get to the starting line. Consider that Rafiki just hit the water this summer, having sat neglected in a yard for many years. Whitney\u2019s family made a low ball offer and spent most of last winter and spring cutting out and rebuilding huge soft spots. Whitney missed most of the spring youth sailing season so that she could spend more time in the boat yard sanding and painting.<\/p>\n

Then Rafiki won the PHRF Section 3 season series even though they missed the first two regattas readying the boat.<\/p>\n

And while Whitney led her inter-generational Rafiki team to the series title, she demonstrated sailing leadership in many other ways:<\/p>\n

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  1. Whitney trounced the adult sailors, winning the double-handed series (with her sister Alison (17) and my daughter Kate (16) as alternating crew.<\/li>\n
  2. Whitney led an all-kids team to an 8th<\/sup> place among 70 division boats in Louie\u2019s Last Regatta<\/a> while raising money for Children\u2019s Hospital of Wisconsin.\u00a0 And they took 2nd<\/sup> in the costumes competition by wearing footy-pajamas under lifejackets (in October on Lake Michigan).<\/li>\n

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  3. A special, all-girls, all-teens Rafiki team is the one to beat in Division 2 in the Milwaukee Bay Women\u2019s Sailing Series<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    If you are lucky to meet Whitney, you\u2019ll find her to be confident, friendly and engaging. She\u2019ll help you if you need it. She\u2019ll work as hard as anyone on the team. She\u2019ll smile into the teeth of a storm. She oozes contagious, authentic enthusiasm for sailing.<\/p>\n

    Congratulations to champion sailor Whitney Kent, and the family and friends who make up all her Rafiki teams, for reminding us why sailing isn\u2019t just for adults. Or kids. It\u2019s for both adults and kids.<\/p>\n

    – Nicholas Hayes, Author of Saving Sailing<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n

    Story by Nicholas Hayes as posted on Sailing Anarchy 10 November 2010.<\/p>\n

    Milwaukee area sailors gathered last Saturday to collect awards for the summer of 2010, and to crown their season champion. And a kid won it all.<\/p>\n

    But not for sailing against kids.<\/p>\n

    Indeed, Whitney Kent, skipper of the J-30 Rafiki and a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,5,8,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boat-information","category-class-news","category-list","category-regatta","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/j30.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/j30.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/j30.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/j30.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/j30.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1005"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/j30.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1008,"href":"https:\/\/j30.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005\/revisions\/1008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/j30.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/j30.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/j30.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}