This is currently funding one specific thing: €3,900, about $6,200 CAD, of coaching for Junior Worlds. The lead-in camp, every race day on the water, and the video debriefs in between. What the team is currently team itself is accommodation, travel, and coaching. Coaching is the highest-leverage dollar of the three. The jump from capsizing in Halifax to sailing confidently in Garda took six weeks, and it did not come from talent. It came from a coach on a RIB, watching every run and telling them the truth.
What a gift buys, roughly:
- $100 = an hour of on-the-water coaching
- $620 = a full coaching day at the championship
- $1,550 = a quarter of the entire coaching block
- Any amount genuinely helps. This campaign has grown one person at a time
All Canadian donations through Wind Athletes Canada receive a tax receipt, and every dollar goes onto the water. If the goal is passed, the surplus goes directly into the next block of the campaign: fall training in Kingston and the road toward the 2027 Worlds.
Andrew Chisholm and Henry Simms are a Canadian team campaigning in the 49er, the Olympic skiff, toward Los Angeles 2028 and Brisbane 2032. Andrew, from Belleville, is the WASZP Junior World Champion and Canadian National Champion. Henry, from Halifax, is a Canada Games gold medallist with deep skiff and keelboat experience. This summer, racing together, they won the IOD World Championship in Marblehead, leading wire to wire.
The 49er is new to them, and the timeline is deliberately aggressive: three months from their first sail in the boat to their first World Championship start line. Since spring they have logged nearly 200 hours, capsizing through a 2°C April camp in Halifax, a coached block on Lake Garda, and race training in Kingston. That start line is now here: the 49erFX Junior World Championship in Medemblik, Netherlands.
This community has already proven what its support turns into. Last month, newsletter readers covered a set of race sails in a matter of days, and those exact sails are on the boat in Medemblik right now. Thank you for reading, for giving, and for being part of this. Andrew and Henry report everything back, the racing, the results, and the occasional tornado warning, in their campaign newsletter at cssails.ca.