LIHUE — Kauai Sailing Association sailors Zoey Huntley, 14, and Nate Sullivan, 13, along with executive director Shale Shore, won the U.S. Sailing Award for the REACH program.
LIHUE — Kauai Sailing Association sailors Zoey Huntley, 14, and Nate Sullivan, 13, along with executive director Shale Shore, won the U.S. Sailing Award for the REACH program.
This is a national program to inspire schools and sailing programs to utilize sailing as an educational platform for science, technology, engineering and math.
Their essays on how sailing has impacted their lives were chosen over essays from other sailors in all 50 states.
The three sailors will travel to Newport, Rhode Island, where they will visit the Herreshoff Museum/America’s Cup Museum.
The around-the-world Volvo ocean racers should be in Newport when they get there, and the Kauai sailors hope to meet with Hawaiian skipper Mark Towill on the boat Vestas.
Shore has been the executive director of the not-for-profit KSA for seven years. Child participants are usually ages 7 to 16. However, the program has also taught some of the crew on the Namahoe, Kauai’s traditional sailing canoe.
Shore is proud of the sailing association’s community involvement in such things as Leadership Kauai and Malama Huleia.
The youngsters say the program has made them more responsible and confident. They also meet new friends.
Scholarships are available for those who cannot afford the program.
