Chasing Magic

The 2025 Valhalla Sailing Season

Chasing Magic follows the 2025 Valhalla Sailing Project season from Annapolis to the J/30 North American Championships in New Orleans. It is a story about veterans, teamwork, pressure, laughter, growth, and what happens when a crew comes together over the course of a season. It is not just a racing story. It is a story about belonging, resilience, and the spark that comes back when people are given a real role and a real team. This framing matches the working book concept and title already developed in your notes. 

At Valhalla, sailing is not treated as passive recreation. Crew-based racing creates shared mission, clearly defined roles, disciplined execution, mutual reliance, and collective accountability. That is part of why the experience matters so deeply for veterans and why this book matters beyond the results sheet. 

“Every veteran deserves a crew.”

“All you have to do is step aboard.”

What the book is about:

This book follows a season of learning, competing, adapting, and growing together. It begins in Annapolis and builds toward New Orleans, where the team finished third at the J/30 North American Championships. More importantly, it shows what can happen when veterans are part of a functioning crew with shared purpose and real consequence.