Sailing Résumé
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I am a member of the Richmond Yacht Club in the San Francisco Bay Area and
the Kaneohe Yacht Club here in Hawaii where I'm living now (2009). In the past I was,
for a couple years, the Fleet Captain of the San Francisco
Bay Chapter of the Columbia Challenger Association. I was the 1991 and 1992
YRA-ODCA season champion as skipper of my own 24 ft. fiberglass sloop
Shay
.
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I owned a Catalina 30
Myst
for a few years and sold it in the spring of '97.
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Served twice as Watch Captain and Navigator on the Pacific Cup race to Hawaii:
once (in 1992) on the communications boat
Arianna
, a cutter rigged Slocum 43,
and (in 1996) on Sonata
, a Morgan 38. On the '96 trip I won the Henri Lloyd
West Marine Pacific Cup Navigators Award for Excellence in the art and science
of navigation and seamanship.
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During the first part of July '97 I served as
Navigator on George Killam's Morgan 38,
Ka-Ula-Lani
in the Transpac'97,
Crusing Class. We had a great time. Long Beach to Diamond head in Hawaii in
14 days and 11 hours. We had many 160 mile days.
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Now I have a Standfast 40 named
Cirrus
and I've been doing
some serious ocean sailing. One of the first steps was the
Pacific Cup race in 1998. We did pretty
well with a 3rd out of 12 in our division and 20th out of 70 overall. For me the high
point of the trip was a 200 mile day we put in about two thirds of the way there.
(Or maybe it was blowing out three spinnakers in the last 20 hours of the race.)
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After PC1998 I left the boat in Hawaii for a year and it was my
intention to sail to Alaska for the
Summer of 1999. We ran into a storm (filling the whole North Pacific with one big low
pressure area) and ended up sailing along its southern edge back to San Francisco.
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Since then we've done the Pacific Cup in 2000, 2004, 2006 and 2008;
in addition we did a Transpac in 2007 and took first place in our division.
We were also the fastest boat from Hawaii (out of three).
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In Spring '93 I taught an eight week celestial navigation course at the
Richmond Yacht Club and another in Spring '94 at the Encinal Yacht Club.
I have prepared a one hour long general interest introduction to celestial
navigation titled
What's an Analemma?
and
I have presented it at various yacht clubs and sailing schools in the Bay Area.
I have been teaching at Club Nautique in
Alameda and other places and I'm still available to individuals and
groups as a private instructor for sailing and celestial navigation.
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I have completed a week long UCSD course on Marine Medicine in San Diego, a Coast
Guard Auxiliary course on Advanced Coastal Navigation, and two weekend courses
at North Sails, one on cruising and one on racing. I have also completed the
five day Advanced Racing course at J-World in San Diego.
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I have chartered four times with friends in the Caribbean, once in
Turkey, once in southern Denmark and for a few days out of Olbia, Sardinia. I also had
the pleasure of making a Panama Canal transit and then sailing up the Pacific Coast
of Central America on
Kialoa II
.
- I have a 100 ton Masters License (expired) from the Coast Guard, #713938. I also have my
Novice Ham License (also expired), KD6WNK. I have been licensed by US Sailing to teach
Keel Boat Sailing and Coastal Navigation.
- I was an Officer of the Deck on an aircraft carrier for a couple of years, most
of it spent cruising around the Pacific.