Hunter Ratliff learned to sail in Michigan at the Macatawa Bay Yacht Club at the young age of 6. He soon learned to race, and was hooked. By age 12, he was invited to sail for Chicago Yacht Club’s junior racing team. He sailed under their burgee for the remainder of his junior sailing. Hunter was the top sailor at Marquette University and sailed as much as he could throughout college while also perusing his other passion, theatre. Hunter has 8 years of coaching experience, and is one of twenty US Sailing Level III certified racing coaches in the country.  He is currently the head sailing coach at Lake Forest Sailing, in IL. Since starting at Lake Forest in 2005, he has taken his teams to 9 national championships, a top 3 finish and a number 1 Midwest ranking.

A versatile professional racer, Jonathan Farrar has succeeded in every type of sail boat: technical dinghies, extreme multihulls, and tactical keel boats. A veteran team player, Farrar excels at maximizing team performance through his intensity and work ethic. A native of southeastern Connecticut, Jonathan Farrar has been sailing and racing since childhood. His avid racing career started in Blue Jays at the Niantic Bay Yacht Club at age 13. He helped found the first public high school sailing team at East Lyme High School, where they finished 2nd and 3rd in the High School Sailing Nationals. Farrar's international racing started in the I420 class, where he was a member of the U.S. national youth team in three world championships. Farrar quickly graduated to Olympic class sailboats. A twelve-time member member of the U.S. Sailing Team from 1993 to 2004, crewing in 470's and Tornado catamarans. Highlights of the 470 campaigns included winning the 1994 North American Championship, being training partners at the 1996 Olympics, and winning the 1997 Miami Olympic Classes Regatta. At the 1996 Summer Olympics, Farrar was also the head coach and team leader of the the Jamaican Olympic Sailing Team. Farrar accelerated his sailing career by moving into multihulls in 1999, racing the Tornado Catamaran. He finished 3rd at the 2000 U.S. Olympic Team, and became training partners for the 2000 Olympics in Sydney, Australia. Farrar was the Tornado National Champion in 2002 and 2003, and finished 2nd at the 2004 U.S. Olympic Team Trials, narrowly missing an Olympic berth. He again participated in the Olympic games by helping to coach his adversaries to a silver medal at the 2004 Olympics in Athens, Greece.

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