About REGATTA DESIGNS
Regatta Designs is the creative studio of Amie Huebner based out of San Diego, CA who teamed with photographer Sara Proctor, from Annapolis, MD in 2009. Amie maintains a small studio that delivers large capability through strategic partnerships with programmers and writers. While she does most of the creative work herself, she also realizes that different projects have different needs and she figures out how to deliver each project on time and on budget. In addition to quality work, you can expect a hands-on approach and personal service. Regatta Designs specializes in brand campaigns and logo development for organizations within the sailing and water sport industry, website design and development, strategic social media and web support, professional on-the-water photography as well as other media services.
Amie Huebner (Boothe)
Creative Director / Marketing Brain
Amie is a graphic and web designer who uses her marketing experience in conjunction with her creative brain. She has a professional background in technology and web communications. In today's interactive web environment, it helps to bring a designer to the table who understands the interactive web, all the marketing tools available, and how to use them. Outside of the creative field, Amie has a passion for sailing, working out, and the greater outdoors. If asked, she'll tell you that a perfect day is best spent ripping around the Bay with her husband on their 505.
Amie started Regatta Designs with the aim to combine her passion for the sport of sailing with her team's collective creative talents. She is positioning the business to help promote the sport of sailing in the eyes of the general public, the media, and the global sailing community. She also remains active in the sailing community through volunteering and competing in events.
Sara Proctor
Partner / Photographer / Print Design / Artist
Sails: J80, Melges 24 & Any Boat That Accommodates Camerawomen
Sara Proctor graduated from the Maryland Institute College of Art, Cum Laude in '05 with BFA in General
Fine Art. While enrolled, Proctor was awarded the Academic Excellence Scholarship, the MICA
Achievement Award, and a MICA Trustees Award. To date, her paintings have been featured in over 25
group exhibitions and many solo shows, including, "Class Trip" at the Irvine Nature Center in Owings
Mills, MD, "To Do List" at 49 West Coffeehouse & Winebar in Annapolis, and "A Victim of Fun Times" at
the Cazbar in Baltimore. She was the winner of the Eastport Yacht Club's 2008 Light's Parade Poster
Contest, and has commissioned numerous paintings on recycled sailcloth, as well as donating pieces for
local charity auctions.
Proctor is an avid sailing photographer, shooting local events and regattas, as well as the official event
photographer of 2008 - 2011 Annapolis Leukemia Cup Regatta's and the 2009 - 2011 Storm Trysail East
Coast & Mid Atlantic Championships. In 2011, Ken Comerford of North Point Yacht Sales and
Sailfastphoto partnered and pooled their resourced to bring Chesapeake Bay sailors and power boaters
affordable on the water and shoreside regatta photographs. Their continued partnership in 2012 is
moving full steam ahead with JBoat regatta'a, Quantum Key West Race Week, and the Annapolis
Hospice Cup on the books for the upcoming year.
In 2011 Proctor was published in Sailing World Magazine and had the honor of having 2 photos selected
for the 2012 Dr. Crash Calendar, as well as being hired to shoot on assignment for SAIL Magazine for
the 2011 Caribbean 1500. Her photos have also been featured on numerous sailing blogs and websites,
in addition to shooting for individuals and teams up and down the east and west coasts, namely, Anema
& Core (JV 52), Beau Geste (Farr 80), Argo (M32), Warpath (M32), Ramrod (M32, Farr 40), Team
Barbarians (M32 & M24), Roxanne (M32), Yellow Jacket (Farr 40), Team Aqua (RC44), Vela Veloce
(Southern Cross 52), Diesel (M20), Stray Dog (GP42), Big Booty (Lutra 42) Kahuna (Farr 395),
Donnybrook (Santa Cruz 72), Federico Michetti, Chris Larson, Gavin Brady, and Gary Jobson.
Proctor has volunteered numerous hours of time to charity events and her high quality photographs have been published and shared by many different businesses and organizations, including: Quantum
Sails (Official photographer for 2012 Quantum Key West Race Week), Sailing World Magazine, SAIL
Magazine, Seahorse Magazine, ZHik, World Cruising Club, Bavaria Yachts, Nationwide Insurance, Solo
Vela, Mascalzone Latino, Magic Marine, MJM Yachts, Farr Yacht Sales LLC, Annapolis Sailing Fitness, The
National Leukemia & Lymphoma Society, Selden, North Point Yacht Sales, JBoats, JWorld Annapolis,
Storn Trysail Club, BoatU.S., Doyle Sails, Sailing Anarchy, Spinsheet, PropTalk, Stagg Yachts, APS Ltd.,
Getsailing.org, Sound Boat Works, The Annapolis Yacht Club, The Eastport Yacht Club, Baltimore City
Yacht Association, Landfall Navigation, Jobson Sailing, Re-Sails, IMCA, USMCA, Womanship, The Capital
Newspaper, and the Chesapeake Boating Club, among others. Proctor's current photography can be
viewed on her website, www.sailfastphoto.com.