Samuel “Shark” Kahn

About me

• Learned how to sail on a Hawaiian outrigger canoe
• 15 years old
• Take a lot of time off school for sailing
• Have sailed from California to Hawaii 3 times
• Besides sailing I do a lot of snowboarding, windsurfing and I play a lot of hockey

Accomplishments

• 1st Place, 2003 Melges 24 World Championship, San Francisco, CA
• 1st Place, 2003 San Diego NOOD Regatta, Melges 24
• 1st Place, Melges 24 Pacific Coast Championship
• 1st to finish, 2001 Transpacific Yacht Race (Los Angeles to Honolulu)
• 2001(youngest person ever to do a Transpac)
• 1st to finish, 2003 Transpacific Yacht Race
• 1st to finish, 2003 Coastal Cup (set a new record for fastest elapsed time (San Francisco to Catalina Island)
• 2nd place, 2004 Key West Race Week, Melges 24
• 2nd place, in a few etchell regatta’s in 2004 sailing season
• 3rd to finish, 2002 Pacific Cup (San Francisco to Kaneohe bay, Hawaii )
• 3rd place, 2004 Fall Dinghy Regatta, 505, San Francisco, CA
• 3rd place, San Francisco NOOD Regatta, Melges 24
• 4th place, 2004 Mumm 30 World Championship, Toronto, Canada
• 6th place, 2004 Melges 24 World Championship, Marstrand, Sweden
• January 2005 – Qualified for United States Sailing Team at Miami OCR in the 49er.