Austin Adams

Experience at a glance

Professional

  • Former Sailing instructor with Park City Sailing Association
  • Former Race Chairman for the Bear Lake Yacht Club
  • Yacht Rigger by trade, initially small scale in Utah, then with Lyman-Morse 

Sailing

  • Since 2005
  • PHRF Racing
  • One design racing
    • Etchells
    • Ultimate 20
    • Elliot 6m
  • Offshore racing
    • Beneteau 44.7
    • TP52
  • Short and single handed

Skills

  • Highly adaptable
  • Capable on a RIB 
  • Composites Certificate
  • Splicing and Rope work
  • Coatings
  • Custom fabrication

Experience at a significantly longer glance

Jumping the halyard at 5 years old

Born and raised in the land locked state of Utah, Austin has amassed quite the sailing resume. Sailing on everything from recycled plastic prams to TP52's in Southern California. The majority of his experience comes from club racing on lakes and reservoirs while traveling to Southern California to participate in some costal buoy races, and a couple sleigh rides down to Mexico.

Sailing on Utah Lake

Austin Adams on his sailing testimony 

"I might as well have just been born on a boat. Having been on them since I was in diapers with a sail tie for a tether connecting myself to my grandma. Sailing was just something I'd always done, but not necessarily by choice. The first ten or so years of my sailing experience were being forced to go to the Great Salt Lake every Wednesday night for the weekly beer cans and weekend distance races. I hated sailing. For me it was synonymous with yucky water, old drunk scruffy people (come to find out they're just called sailors), brine flies, and spiders. It wasn't until the Great Salt Lake had nearly dried up that I began entertaining the idea of sailing. The family boat moved up to Bear Lake on the Utah-Idaho border, where sailing had begun to take on its new meaning, one of class and leisure, dare I say fun. It wasn't long after that my grandpa was invited to do a race called the TransPac from LA to Hawaii. My grandma and I ended up meeting them at the finish line in Hawaii and that is where I learned that sailing can be cool. From that moment on I embraced sailing like no other, getting on as many boats as possible, teaching sailing with the local sailing school, becoming quite possibly the youngest race chairman ever with the Bear Lake Yacht Club, purchasing and selling multiple boats, moving across the country to get out to the coast, and now furthering my sailing career with a Mini Transat."