Chris Poole grew up in Falmouth, Maine where he learned to sail at age 10 at Portland Yacht Club. He first got his feet wet with match racing when he became an intern at the Chicago Match Race Center during the summer of 2011. During the following summer Chris launched the Riptide Racing campaign for the World Match Race Tour. Since 2012 the team has achieved a personal best ranking of 19th in the world and 1st in the United States. With repeated success at top international events Chris hopes to challenge for the 2018 M32 World Championship in Chicago.
Chris Kennedy
Before working and sailing at Oakcliff Sailing Center, Chris Kennedy cut his match racing teeth on Foundation 36's and Elliott 6m's in Australia. Before that he attended University of Virginia as an aerospace engineer, but majoring mostly in sailboat racing all over the east coast. His early years growing up in Wisconsin, aka: Melges country, sailing on famous Lake Geneva has given him a very solid base upon which to build his sailing experience. Now with Riptide, he is ready to jump on any boat, anywhere and show the world what the team can do.
Connor Mashlan
Connor S Mashlan of Auckland University of Technology, with expertise in Ocean Engineering, Naval Engineering, Mechanical engineering.
Carson Crain
Josh Salthouse
Josh has been sailing since the age of 7, starting in Optimists and making his way through the various dinghy classes and competing nationally. He joined the Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron’s Youth Training Programme in 2013, sailing Elliot 7s, and graduated a year later. He soon joined 36 Below Racing, competing with the team on the world match racing tour. Josh has also done a lot of keel boat racing around Auckland and offshore, including big boat deliveries such as the Camper Volvo Open 70 and Beau Geste Botin 80, clocking up more than 25,000 offshore miles, and his long-term goal is to compete in the America’s Cup.
Carlos Robles
Carlos Works at Sailing is more than a sport... it's a lifestyle and studied at Universitat Pompeu Fabra - Barcelona