Biographical Info
Talib is from St. Petersburg, Florida, United States and is a member of Sea Scout Ship Intrepid (915) of the Greater Tampa Bay Area Council. He has been active in scouting for 3 years and has earned the rank of Ordinary. He will graduate in 2020 from Lakewood High School.
In scouting he helps with daily leadership as well has individual coaching with the needs of his ship, he is a current boatswains mate. He teaches a summer camp for sailing as well as teaching sailing for beginners to a homeschooling co-op. While schooling is his top priority he makes time for sailing, scouting, and volunteering at Lake-view elementary at least once a week.
He tries his best to delegate time between schooling and scouting and sailing to the best of his ability and manages to do decent at all of those and looks forward to show his self as a sailor at a national competition.
He has been around sailboats since he was born but he first started sailing his own boat when he was 7. He participates in sanctioned sailing races 1-2 times a month with South Point High School sailing on Lakewood Varsity team B. He has sailed Optimists, Catalina 16.5s, Sunfish, Windmills, 420s, Hobie cats, Catalina 14.2s, as well as various types of large boats 20+ feet.
