Boy sails to victory in art concert




'AHOY MATEY'--Trevor Staley shows off the drawing that earned him a first place sailboat (shown at right) during a recent Boat Show in Long Beach. Trevor and his 6-year-old brother, Nick, immediately put the boat to work at Westlake lake. Trevor seemed confident, his dad said, that he'd win.

‘AHOY MATEY’–Trevor Staley shows off the drawing that earned him a first place sailboat (shown at right) during a recent Boat Show in Long Beach. Trevor and his 6-year-old brother, Nick, immediately put the boat to work at Westlake lake. Trevor seemed confident, his dad said, that he’d win.


Young boys love to draw cars, boats and spaceships (or anything that goes fast and explodes).


Trevor Staley’s ability to draw returned big dividends recently when he entered a sailboat drawing contest at the Long Beach Boat Show and won first prize: An eight-foot-long Naples Sabot.


The Southern California Marine Association, the contest sponsor, gave Trevor a call two weeks after the boat show to tell him he’d won.


"I remember the drive home from the boat show and Trevor kept asking when would he find out if he won the boat," said Trevor’s dad, Pete Staley.


"All I could say was there must have been hundreds of entries and he shouldn’t get his hopes too high. There was plenty of competition," said the dad.


The Staley family lives in Agoura Hills.


Trevor, a 10-year-old student at Lupin Hills Elementary School, has always been interested in art and spends much of his free time drawing boats, mostly ski boats. He’s an avid waterskier who likes to tackle the slalom course at Castaic Lake, or parasail and ride jet skis at Lake Mead.


Trevor also enjoys playing baseball.


Trevor’s dad said he hopes to take his son and his new boat to Lake Lindero for some sailing lessons.


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