Sailing Résumé

• 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.
• I owned a Catalina 30 Myst for a few years and sold it in the spring of '97.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.)
• 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.
• 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).
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.