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Live Interview! New York Yacht Club

Today, Tuesday, March 31, 2020 at 11am EST Lara will be doing a live interview for the New York Yacht Club members. Check it out to hear where we are now and what comes next!

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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 a team we try to maximize our time on the water, with the quarantine we have been given the opportunity to study other aspects of our sport and become experts in the rules, starts, tactics and strategy. We can’t control the situation we are currently in but we can use it to our advantage and grow stronger as a team. ? ??

There are a lot of unknowns at the moment but we are adapting to the situations! We want to give a big thank you to all the people who believe in us, push us and help us determine our next steps!

 

“I’m always asked, ‘What’s the secret to success?’ But there are no secrets. Be humble. Be hungry. And always be the hardest worker in the room.”
– Dwayne Johnson

Racing in Spain and Doing Very Well

First Top 10 Finish! 8th overall at the MSC (Mallorca Sailing Center) Training Regatta this weekend, February 21-23. Twenty-three Women’s 470 teams representing 14 countries.

2019 European Championship

Another Regatta in the Books!

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Barnes & Dallman-Weiss Qualify as USA Women’s 470 Team for Olympic Test Event in Japan in August

The Trofeo Princesa Sofia Iberostar celebrates this year its 50th anniversary in the elite of Olympic sailing in a record edition, to be held in Majorcan waters from 29th March to 6th April, organised by Club Nàutic S’Arenal, Club Marítimo San Antonio de la Playa, Real Club Náutico de Palma and the Balearic and Spanish federations.
©Pedro Martinez/SAILING ENERGY/50th Trofeo Princesa Sofia Iberostar
02 April, 2019.

Palma, Spain: U.S. Coast Guard LTJG Nikole Barnes and Lara Dallman-Weiss, Team Perfect Vision Sailing, have qualified to represent the USA in the Women’s 470 at the next Olympic Test Event, August 17 to 22, 2019, in Enoshima Yacht Harbour, in Japan. The duo did so by finishing 20th out of a 45-boat fleet at the Trofeo Princesa Sofia Iberostar regatta, sailed April 1 to 6, in Palma, Spain. What’s more, Barnes and Dallman-Weiss placed 15, 16 and 25 scoreboard slots higher, respectively, than the three other USA Women’s 470 teams.

“The regatta was a good chance for us to see where we are with our training,” says LTJG Barnes, a 2017 graduate of the U.S. Coast Guard Academy, whose campaign is strongly supported by the U.S. Coast Guard Alumni Association. LTJG Barnes is currently stationed at U.S. Coast Guard Sector Miami. “At the end of the day, we were able to attain and maintain great boat speed. We always have more to work on, but I am so happy with the progress our team has made. We are excited to be the USA representatives in the Women’s 470 in Japan in August for the Olympic Test Event.”

Dallman-Weiss adds, “This regatta was significant as April marks one year that the two of us have sailed together. For this event, we worked hard beforehand to learn the venue and prepare for the different conditions that we did find during the week. Come race day, we stuck to the plan we had made and kept everything really simple. Palma was a great way for our team to start the European racing season and we are very excited to continue to build on what we’ve learned.”

Japan’s Enoshima Yacht Harbour is the venue for the sailing competition for the 2020 Summer Olympics. The coastal city is located 36 miles southwest of Tokyo. While the USA still needs to quality as a country in the Women’s 470 for the 2020 Games, this qualification is a significant hurdle jumped for LTJG Barnes and Dallman-Weiss on the way to achieving this goal.

The Trofeo Princesa Sofia Iberostar celebrates this year its 50th anniversary in the elite of Olympic sailing in a record edition, to be held in Majorcan waters from 29th March to 6th April, organised by Club Nàutic S’Arenal, Club Marítimo San Antonio de la Playa, Real Club Náutico de Palma and the Balearic and Spanish federations. ©Jesus Renedo/SAILING ENERGY/50th Trofeo Princesa Sofia Iberostar
01 April, 2019.

Next up, LTJG Barnes and Dallman-Weiss will compete in the 2019 World Cup Series – Round 3, Genoa, April 15 to 21, in Genoa, Italy. They will be coached by Robby Bisi.

“Our ability to provide LTJG Barnes the opportunity to pursue her goal of representing our nation in the 2020 Olympics is just one example of the Service’s efforts to develop and retain the talented women and men who make up the U.S. Coast Guard’s Total Workforce,” says RADM Bill Kelly ‘87, Assistant Commandant for Human Resources. “Providing her the ability to train full time is indicative of our dedication to our people and our Service to ensure we have a workforce prepared to meet the needs of the Nation.”

LTJG Barnes is a native of St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands, and member of both the St. Francis Yacht Club and St. Thomas Yacht Club. Dallman-Weiss is a native of Shoreview, MN, and member of the New York Yacht Club.
To support LTJG Barnes and Dallman Weiss, donate to the U.S. Coast Guard Academy Alumni Association’s Elite Athletic Excellence Fund (www.cgaalumni.org/eliteathlete).

For more information about LTJG Barnes and Dallman Weiss’ Olympic campaign, visit www.perfectvisionsailing.com or Email: [email protected]. Follow on Facebook www.facebook.com/perfectvisionsailing and Instagram @perfectvisionsailing

The Trofeo Princesa Sofia Iberostar celebrates this year its 50th anniversary in the elite of Olympic sailing in a record edition, to be held in Majorcan waters from 29th March to 6th April, organised by Club Nàutic S’Arenal, Club Marítimo San Antonio de la Playa, Real Club Náutico de Palma and the Balearic and Spanish federations. ©Jesus Renedo/SAILING ENERGY/50th Trofeo Princesa Sofia Iberostar
05 April, 2019.

Team PVS in Sail-World Magazine

Sail-World’s David Schmidt speaks with Nikki Barnes and Lara Dallman-Weiss about their 470 campaign.

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Perfect Training in Biscayne Bay, Miami, Florida, USA

The Miami skyline offers a beautiful backdrop for training. And Biscayne Bay is excellent to sail on.

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