Entries by Nikole Barnes

Quarantine!

After a month and a half of hard training on the water in Palma, Spain we have traded our water training ground for the mental and physical classrooms in our homes in Miami, FL. Over these past two weeks of quarantine we have participated in daily webinars, multiple daily team calls and daily workouts. As […]

Shredding the gnar…again.

Just in from training hard in Newport, Rhode Island. Big waves, lots of shredding the gnar. Less than three weeks until our next event, the 470 U.S. National Championships and first leg of the Triple Crown Series at Oakcliff in Oyster Bay, New York, July 14-15. www.oakcliffsailing.org

Racing on a Bigger Boat

Nikki on the rail in the 164th New York Yacht Club Annual Regatta in Newport, RI. Little bigger than an Olympic 470! This was day one of the  Race. Photo by Forster Photography  Thanks Daniel. — at New York Yacht Club-Harbour Court.

Remembering MEMORIAL DAY from Perfect Vision Sailing

ENS Nikole ‘Nikki’ Barnes, 470 skipper for Perfect Vision Sailing commissioned in the U.S. Coast Guard just over a year ago. ENS Barnes is homeported out of U.S. Coast Guard Sector Miami and working hard to proudly represent them, the U.S. Coast Guard and the United States at the 2020 Summer Olympic Games in Tokyo in the 470. Memorial […]

US Sailing Center Lease Renewed

Hooray! We went to city hall this morning for the decision of the lease renewal of the US Sailing Center. The decision was positive, another 10 years with two four year extensions. There is no place like the USSC, it provides opportunity for so many in our community and is our training base, there is […]