Yosh is a blue water sailor and lover of all things on and below the water. She is a USCG 25T Captain, former PADI MSDT scuba instructor, and avid wild swimmer. In July 2023, YOSH competed in the prestigious TransPac race from Los Angeles to Hawaii on s/v Good Trouble, Andrews 56 with Offshore Racing Outreach, a team of majority minorities, the first of its kind in the race’s 100+ year history. Read about the team in Latitude 38. Yosh has raced in a variety of regattas including Rolex Big Boat in San Francisco on an Express 37, Linda Elias Memorial Women’s One Design in Long Beach on a Catalina 37 for Women’s Sailing Association, and several Women on the Water/Women at the Helm regattas in Marina del Rey. While Yosh loves short buoy ‘beer can’ races and she also loves being at sea on long passages. In 2021, Yosh double-handed a 2700NM journey on an Ericsson 30 from San Diego, California to the Big Island, Hawaii and inter-islands around Maui, Molokini, Molokai and ending in Honolulu, Oahu. Other long hauls include a a 2000NM delivery as crew from Grenada to Charleston, South Carolina via USVI and 1300NM outrunning a cyclone from Tahiti to Cook Islands ending in the Kingdom of Tonga. If you’re a sailor in California, you may have heard about the Baja Haha sponsored by Latitude 38 magazine. Yosh is a 3x veteran of that rally, twice on a Swan 44 and once on a Jeanneau 45 with an extended trip up the Sea of Cortez for lots of freediving and fishing, ultimately landing a covershot on Latitude 38 Dec 2022 issue. In 2018, Yosh spent eight months in Indonesia between Bali, Gili Air, Amed, Nusa Lembongan and Komodo scuba diving and earning her PADI Instructors certification with Two Fish Divers and DM through 3WDive.

While swimming, sailing and diving in various bodies of water around the globe, she has encountered grey whales, giant oceanic manta rays, reef tip sharks, parrot fish, turtles, scorpion, puffer and frogfish as well as rare pygmy seahorses and nudibranchs. She has a penchant for diving among historical WWII wrecks. One of her favorite diving memories is sitting in the cockpit of a WWII fighter plane 30 feet under the water off the coast of Nusa Island, Kavieng, Papua New Guinea. Go with Scuba Kavieng (you can see my photo with the pink dive cap).

While living in San Francisco, Yosh also swam with the South End Rowing Club and braved the San Francisco Bay and swam 1.25miles from Alcatraz to Aquatic Park in 60F temperatures and once under the Golden Gate Bridge with 50 of Pedro’s Water World Swimmers starting under the South Tower and swimming for 1.25miles past the North Tower touching down at Finger Point Rock.

If you guessed that Yosh is a Pisces, you’d be right! If she spends too much time on land, she feels like a fish out of water. Her big dream is to circumnavigate the world by boat and dive in remote bays. If you love the ocean, join her on the High Seas.