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About Me

Sailing background: Grew up in Mandeville, LA, learned how to sail in Sunfish. Moved on to GYA events in Flying Scots and PHRF events in Buffalo Soldier (Olson 30), Kaya (J35), Creole Cookin' (Lindenberg 28) and other leadmines.College sailing: Tufts University, primarily sloop events (J 22's, Rhodes 19's and IOD's)Gmunden, Austria 1994 Trias Europeans (3 person keelboat similar to an Etchells)Post College: middle crew Lightning when I lived in Chicago and Iowa, FJ's at Iowa Sailing Club. Raced 5o5's for the last 5 years or so.Setting up this site to post events I plan on sailing in the upcoming season (see calender for planned regattas) and to let possible drivers and crew know more about me (past results in blog). I'm about 170 lbs., I'm pretty flexible on keelboats, able to handle foredeck, trim or call tactics.My current sailing program (which seems to change on a weekly basis):1.Sunfish racing on GYA Circuit & national events if scenic 2. Crewing OPB's on the Melges 24 SE Circuit (currently on Hermes) 3. Sailing scots on the GYA Capdeville schedule. 4. Crewing OPB's in PHRF- GYA Challenge Cup, etc. 5. Get into A cat racing & cat Portsmouth racing in Florida and the GYA 6. Crew/ drive 505's when invited

My Interests

sailing, hiking, camping, swimming, running

I'd like to meet:

other sailors, also people who love music and have good bands to recommend

Music:

pretty broad here- I like everything from Sting, Led Zeppelin and the Stones to Pete Yorn, Vertical Horizon and the Cranberries. New Orleans music (Cowboy Mouth, Radiators). Grew up in the 80's, so I like the old Depesche Mode & alternative sound from the early 90's too. Not a huge fan of country, rap or R&B (although I like the Dixie Chics and Eminem)

Movies:

big sci-fi fan- Lord of the Rings, Star Wars, etc. Like spy thrillers (Bourne Identity, Ronin, etc.), Italian Job, Ocean's Eleven. Also like the John Hughes 80's movies, Airplane, Ferris Buehler's Day Off. Been too busy to get to the movies much lately, mostly catching on dvd

Television:

Once again, Sci-fi: Heroes (writer and star from my alma mater), Battlestar Gallactica, Lost, Bionic Woman, Terminator Sarah Connor Chronicles and Dr Who. But in reality, not much time to watch the boob tube.

Books:

currently reading, in no particular order, The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway, Sail Smart by Buddy Melges, The Sunfish Bible, Sail, Race, Win by Eric Twiname, and about 5 more in the queue

Heroes:

my dad, Paul Elvstrom, Dennis Conner, Michael Schuhmacher (7 F1 champs!), Krister Bergstrom (never met him, but 5 5o5 world champs!), Marcel Buffet (2 5o5 world champs (1959 & 1960) and still racing)

My Blog

British sailors Pt 2

This should actually be part 1, because Shirley Robertson already has her gold medal. The blurb in Sailing Anarchy makes the analogy of her to sailing as Danica Patrick is to open wheel auto rac...
Posted by bob on Mon, 02 Jun 2008 07:57:00 PST

the British Olympic Sailing Team is pretty hot

this stunning image a result of 19 hours of photography by Ranald Mackechnie, and over nine hours spent in make-up with body painting specialist Phyllis Cohen. From left to right are: Skandia Team GB...
Posted by bob on Fri, 25 Apr 2008 09:49:00 PST

Curmudgeons observations

For those of you who get Scuttlebutt, this is my favorite part of the newsletter: CURMUDGEON'S OBSERVATIONMen have two emotions: Hungry and Horny. If you see a guy without anerection, then he is looki...
Posted by bob on Wed, 12 Dec 2007 07:38:00 PST

Pulling back

So my sailing program right now is as follows: 1. Sunfish on GC- not going to Erie, PA for NA's, did not qualify for worlds in Buffalo CC in Canada, not going to Cypremort YC in Woods (aka Cajun count...
Posted by bob on Fri, 11 Apr 2008 08:33:00 PST

A cat ride debrief

Upwind:Steering with the tiller extension on the hull really helped stabilize steering adjustments. I’ll have to work on the transition to getting out on the wire with my hands full. ...
Posted by bob on Mon, 07 Apr 2008 01:17:00 PST

2008 Sunfish Mid Winters

Results at www.stabyc.org 25 of 40- not bad for my first big sunfish event, and the fact that I’m not really much of a single-handed dinghy sailor. Also, been in the boat for 8 months afte...
Posted by bob on Mon, 17 Mar 2008 08:25:00 PST

Sunfish Mid Winters 2008- pre-event practice

Hit the water last Saturday to get some practice in before this week's MW's at St ABYC. The predicted 20-25 from the NW was almost right. It was more like 15-18 with gusts over 20, but I n...
Posted by bob on Mon, 10 Mar 2008 02:48:00 PST

10 reasons why sunfish are better than lasers

This is from Scuttlebutt, from another blogger: 10 It's cheaper. A new race-rigged Laser will set you back around $5345 right now; but the equivalent Sunfish is "only" $3995. 9 It's faster to rig. For...
Posted by bob on Thu, 06 Dec 2007 06:26:00 PST

St Andrews Bay YC PHRF Series

09-22-07 Sailed with the Zehners on Trippnautic, Tripp 26. A tropical storm had blown through adn the forecasr was for 60% chance of rain and breeze 10-20. Well, they were 1/2 right. First...
Posted by bob on Mon, 24 Sep 2007 04:29:00 PST

AYC wednesday night series Melges 24 sailing

I've hooked up with the Annapolis regional governor, Bill Carlton, on Tiburon for the last few Wednesday nights (www.teamtiburon.net). There are a few photos in the gallery from May 23. Th...
Posted by bob on Sat, 02 Jun 2007 07:18:00 PST