\n<\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\nNicole is 52 years old, sailing since was 2 and grew up in eastern Connecticut sailing on Long Island Sound. As a youth she competed in the International 420 class \u2013 a two person high performance dinghy by those days\u2019 standard. She developed a taste for international travel and competition as a teenager.<\/p>\n\n\n\nWhile studying at Yale she was recruited for soccer but chose collegiate sailing full time and graduated with All American honors.<\/p>\n\n\n\nNicole dabbled in an Olympic bid in 470 class before starting a teaching career\u00a0where she taught high school history, soccer and was a sailing coach in Connecticut public schools for 10 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\nShe was introduced to match racing during a sabbatical\u00a0and has never looked back \u2013 match racing now for 12+ years and based in San Francisco Bay Area \u2013 representing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stfyc.com\/\">St. Francis Yacht Club.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\nAt start of 2024 Nicole is the top ranked US woman skipper (5th in the world), #2 open rankings (12th in the world).<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"549\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sailsporttalk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/53637999953_e000d8aa40_c.jpg?resize=800%2C549&ssl=1\" alt=\"California Dreamin\u2019 Series - Nicole Breault of St Francis YC comes in 3rd at Long Beach Stop\" class=\"wp-image-4418\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sailsporttalk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/53637999953_e000d8aa40_c.jpg?w=800&ssl=1 800w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sailsporttalk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/53637999953_e000d8aa40_c.jpg?resize=300%2C206&ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sailsporttalk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/53637999953_e000d8aa40_c.jpg?resize=768%2C527&ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<\/p>\n\n\n\nWe are pleased to share her story and her plans for competing this month in the Ficker Cup \u2013 hosted by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lbyc.org\/\">Long Beach Yacht Club<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/p>\n<\/body>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Enjoy our interview with 3 time Ficker Cup competitor, Nicole Breault. She had the best finish last year 4th but was knocked out by friend and fellow woman skipper Megan Thompson from NZ who punched a ticked for Congressional Cup by finishing 2nd. Only the top 3 of the 8 finalists chosen for the Ficker Cup move on to the Congressional Cup two weeks later in Long Beach, California. \u201cvery excited for this years chance to try again for a coveted spot in this year\u2019s Con Cup, feeling good\u201d Nicole is 52 years old, sailing since was 2 and grew… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4416,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[630,321,629,142,631,45,143,53],"class_list":["post-4414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-long-beach-yacht-club","tag-bill-ficker","tag-congressional-cup","tag-ficker-cup","tag-karen-lile","tag-nicole-breault","tag-racing","tag-rick-tittle","tag-sail-sport-talk"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sailsporttalk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/53637999938_c969ed1ac9_c.jpg?fit=799%2C533&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sailsporttalk.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sailsporttalk.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sailsporttalk.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sailsporttalk.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sailsporttalk.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4414"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/sailsporttalk.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4414\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4430,"href":"https:\/\/sailsporttalk.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4414\/revisions\/4430"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sailsporttalk.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sailsporttalk.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sailsporttalk.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sailsporttalk.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}