Mission

Keep them sailing

Our mission is to give Puget Sound’s most committed youth sailors and their families, the coaching, regatta support, and local club instruction to develop their full sailing potential and compete at regional, national and international events.

Our pillars

We are here to fuel the passion of ALL our PNW youth sailors and help their families support them. Behind every successful youth sailor, there is a village making it happen.

COACHING

International Level

We will recruit world-class coaches with previous experience sailing and racing in the Optimist Class.

Multiple Approaches

We will invite coaches from different regions to give our sailors different coaching perspectives.

PNW Style

We will practice competitive cooperation, kindness and mutual support true to our PNW values.

RACING

Regional to International

We will organize regional, national, and international trips to give our sailors a broader exposure.

Regatta Coaching

We will always have coaching support at regattas and use them as learning opportunities.

Regatta Family Support

We will help families with the logistics of chartering optis, motor boats, and lower the cost of lodging and travel.

FOR THE PNW

Common Curriculum

We will champion an Opti specific training curriculum that can serve as the glue between regional and local programs.

Local Coach Support

We will support our local clubs with Opti specific coach training to raise Opti competitiveness across the region.

Local Club Support

We will support our local clubs to identify and retain our most committed sailors.

Our approach

We believe our sailors should own their own development and should be exposed to multiple coaching styles.

With that in mind, our coaches work with our sailors to set quarterly learning goals and pro-actively seek instruction to meet their goals. We also invite and travel to train with other high-performance coaches from Mexico to Canada.

The PSST team at the Fall clinic with coach Nico Winograd from San Francisco Yacht Club.

Our partner organizations

Sailors often learn best from other sailors. We work with our partner clubs to bring our fleets together and give our sailors better sailing opportunities. We are also building a global community to expand our sailor's network to meet their future sailing endeavors.

Puget Sound

West Coast

International